Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray - Paperback
by Linda Simon
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner BooksISBN-13:9780156032445ISBN-10:156032449UPC:9780156032445Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Physics, United StatesBook Topic:Electricity, 19th CenturySize:8.08 x 5.30 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCR0G7A4K5
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner BooksISBN-13:9780156032445ISBN-10:156032449UPC:9780156032445Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Physics, United StatesBook Topic:Electricity, 19th CenturySize:8.08 x 5.30 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCR0G7A4K5
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LINDA SIMON is a professor of English at Skidmore College. She is the author of four biographies, including Genuine Reality: A Life of Henry James and The Biography of Alice B.Toklas. She lives in Saratoga Springs, NewYork.
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