Dark Light Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray

Name: Dark Light Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
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ISBN: 9780156032445

ISBN-10: 0156032449

ISBN-13: 9780156032445

Edition: 2004

Authors: Linda Simon

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The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today? In Dark Light, Linda Simon offers the first cultural history…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



Wonders



Working Great Mischief



Beneficence



Wilderness of Wires



Nerve Juice



Sparks



Gravings of the Heart



The Inconstant Battery



Haunted Brains



The Inscrutable Something



Electrostrikes



Live Wires



Magical Keys



Dark Light


Appreciation


Notes


Bibliography


Index