1st Edition
Electric Power in Victorian Britain Volume I: Electric Power Imagined
Volume I Electric Power Imagined
Series Introduction
General Introduction
Volume I Introduction
Part 1. Anxiety
1. Charles Babbage, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on some of its Causes
2. What Will He Grow To? (illustration)
3. William Stanley Jevons, The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines
Part 2. Imagining Electricity
4. John Bywater, Historical Electricity
5. Erasmus Darwin, Progress of the Mind, Canto III
6. Electricity
7. Michael Angelo Garvey, The Silent Revolution, Or, The Future Effects of Steam and Electricity Upon the Condition of Mankind
8. Science
9. F. C. Webb, Electricity and the Future
10. William Crookes, Electricity in Relationship to Science
11. Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution
12. The Universality of Electricity
13. Prometheus Unbound: Science in Olympus (illustration)
14. Telectroscopy
Part 3. Experiments
15. Alexander Volta to Joseph Banks, On the Electricity Excited by the Mere Contact of Conducting Substances of Different Kinds
16. J. C. Robertson, Mr. Bain’s Electro Magnetic Inventions
17. Andrew Crosse, On the Production of Insects by Voltaic Electricity
18. Anon, Endless Amusement: a collection of nearly 400 entertaining experiments in various branches of science
19. Michael Faraday, On Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter
20. Charles Wheatstone letter to Alexander Bain, June 13, 1842
21. Hippolyte Fontaine, Industrial Applications
22. Charles Wheatstone, On the Augmentation of the Power of a Magnet by the Reaction thereon of Currents Induced by the Magnet Itself
23. Maxwell James Clerk, A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field
24. Gisbert Kapp, Aron Meter
Part 4. Self-Reflection-Retrospection “Looking”
25. Anon, Priority
Index
Biography
Dr. Nathan Kapoor is an Affiliate Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Department History at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. He is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century technologies of electrification, with a specialisation in the history of British electrification at home and in its colonies, most especially New Zealand.
