A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America

by James Delbourgo

Book Overview

Benjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of many early Americans fascinated by electricity. As a dramatically new physical experience, electricity amazed those who dared to tame the lightning and set it coursing through their own bodies. Thanks to its technological and medical utility, but also its surprising ability to defy rational experimental mastery, electricity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022998
• ISBN13: 9780674022997
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.4"