Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London

by Iwan Rhys Morus

Book Overview

During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity. In examining this period, Iwan Morus moves beyond the conventional focus on the celebrated Michael Faraday to discuss other electrical experimenters, who aspired to spectacular public displays of their discoveries. Revealing connections among such diverse fields as scientific lecturing, laboratory research, telegraphic communication,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691059527
• ISBN13: 9780691059525
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Beyond Faraday

I've been searching for this book since I heard it reviewed on ABC Radio (Australia) some years ago. It was on my Thrift "wish list" for about a month until a copy became available. The interest created by the ABC review had to do with the experimentation, discovery and invention in the early days of 'practical' electricity. The book begins with Michael Faraday - some years after the early experiments of Ben Franklin - and ventures into areas relatively untouched by scientific narrative of the early nineteenth century.