INTRODUCTION: From Performance to Process

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. PREFACE ix
5. PART ONE: The Places of Experiment
6. INTRODUCTION: Electricity, Experiment, and the Experimental Life 3
7. CHAPTER 1. The Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution 13
8. CHAPTER 2. The Vast Laboratory of Nature: William Sturgeon and Popular Electricity 43
9. CHAPTER 3. Blending Instruction with Amusement: London's Galleries of Practical Science 70
10. CHAPTER 4. A Science of Experiment and Observation: The Rise and Fall of the London Electrical Society 99
11. CHAPTER 5. The Right Arm of God: Electricity and the Experimental Production of Life 125
12. PART TWO: Managing Machine Culture
13. INTRODUCTION: From Performance to Process 155
14. CHAPTER 6. They Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity 164
15. CHAPTER 7. To Annihilate Time and Space: The Invention of the Telegraph 194
16. CHAPTER 8. Under Medical Direction: The Regulation of Electrotherapy 231
17. CODA: The Disciplining of Experimental Life 257
18. NOTES 263
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 295
20. INDEX 317
21. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 325