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

Name: Morals of Measurement Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice
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ISBN: 9780521187565

ISBN-10: 0521187567

ISBN-13: 9780521187565

Edition: 2011

Authors: G. J. N. Gooday

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Book details

List price: $53.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English




Moralizing measurement: (dis) trust in the people, instruments and techniques



Meanings of measurements and accounts of accuracy



Mercurial trust and resistive measures: rethinking the 'metals controversy' of 1860-94



Reading technologies: trust, the embodied instrument user and the visualization of current measurement



Coupled problems of self-induction: the unparalleled and the unmeasurable in AC technology



Measurement at a distance: fairness, trustworthiness and gender in reading the domestic electrical meter