The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice

by Graeme J.N. Gooday

Book Overview

The Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories of quantification and electrical technology in nineteenth-century Britain, Germany and France. It shows how the advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the industrialization of electrical measurement from a skilled labour-intensive activity to a mechanized practice. Challenging traditional accounts that focus on the metrological standards used in measurement, this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521187567
• ISBN13: 9780521187565
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"