A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders : : Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America /

A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders : : Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America / / James Delbourgo.

Benjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of many early Americans fascinated by electricity. As a dramatically new physical experience, electricity amazed those who dared to tame the lightning and set it coursing thro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Delbourgo, James,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Seizing the Lightning
  • 1 Atlantic Circuits
  • 2 Lightning Rods and the Direction of Nature
  • 3 Wonderful Recreations
  • 4 Electrical Politics and Political Electricity
  • 5 How to Handle an Electric Eel
  • 6 Electrical Humanitarianism
  • 7 Electricity as Common Sense
  • Conclusion: What Is American Enlightenment?
  • Notes
  • Illustration Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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