Domesticating Electricity - Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880-1914

An innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods.

About the author

Graeme Gooday is professor of the history of science and technology, in the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice, Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender in Late Nineteenth-Century Culture, 1880-1914, and, with Stathis Arapostathis, Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain.

Summary

An innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods.

Product details

• Authors: Graeme Gooday
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780822965299
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6529-9
• No. of pages: 302
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century; Sci & Culture in the Nineteent; Sci & Culture in the Nineteent; Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century; Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics