Electric Power in Victorian Britain
Volume I: Electric Power Imagined
Series: Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 22 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032281674
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 Halftones, black & white 700
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Short description:
The materials in this volume cover the works of those for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Science.
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The materials in this volume cover the works of the natural philosophers, mathematicians, engineers, and entertainers for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. The papers, books, and experiments explore the ways in which electricity transforms from a force of nature into a source of energy. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Science.
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Volume I Electric Power Imagined
Series Introduction
General Introduction
Volume I Introduction
Part 1. Anxiety
1. Charles Babbage, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on some of its Causes
2. What Will He Grow To? (illustration)
3. William Stanley Jevons, The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines
Part 2. Imagining Electricity
4. John Bywater, Historical Electricity
5. Erasmus Darwin, Progress of the Mind, Canto III
6. Electricity
7. Michael Angelo Garvey, The Silent Revolution, Or, The Future Effects of Steam and Electricity Upon the Condition of Mankind
8. Science
9. F. C. Webb, Electricity and the Future
10. William Crookes, Electricity in Relationship to Science
11. Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution
12. The Universality of Electricity
13. Prometheus Unbound: Science in Olympus (illustration)
14. Telectroscopy
Part 3. Experiments
15. Alexander Volta to Joseph Banks, On the Electricity Excited by the Mere Contact of Conducting Substances of Different Kinds
16. J. C. Robertson, Mr. Bain’s Electro Magnetic Inventions
17. Andrew Crosse, On the Production of Insects by Voltaic Electricity
18. Anon, Endless Amusement: a collection of nearly 400 entertaining experiments in various branches of science
19. Michael Faraday, On Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter
20. Charles Wheatstone letter to Alexander Bain, June 13, 1842
21. Hippolyte Fontaine, Industrial Applications
22. Charles Wheatstone, On the Augmentation of the Power of a Magnet by the Reaction thereon of Currents Induced by the Magnet Itself
23. Maxwell James Clerk, A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field
24. Gisbert Kapp, Aron Meter
Part 4. Self-Reflection-Retrospection “Looking”
25. Anon, Priority
Index
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