Dark Light

Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray

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Dark Light

Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray

"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 a cultural history that delves into those questions, using newspapers, novels, and other primary sources. Tracing fifty years of technological transformation, from Morse's invention of the telegraph to Roentgen's discovery of X-rays, she has created a revealing portrait of an anxious age."--BOOK JACKET.

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Harcourt
Language
English
Pages
368

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Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-ray
April 18, 2005, Harvest Books
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Cover of: Dark Light
Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
July 5, 2004, Harcourt
in English

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First Sentence

"When he was twenty-three, Samuel Finley Breese Morse wrote to his parents from England, where he had been studying and practicing art for two years, defying their wishes that he become a bookseller at home in Massachusetts."

Classifications

Library of Congress
TK17 .S56 2004, TK17.S56 2004

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7362497M
Internet Archive
darklightelectri0000simo
ISBN 10
0151005869
ISBN 13
9780151005864
LCCN
2003019994
OCLC/WorldCat
53223462
Library Thing
172437
Goodreads
1072529

First Sentence

"When he was twenty-three, Samuel Finley Breese Morse wrote to his parents from England, where he had been studying and practicing art for two years, defying their wishes that he become a bookseller at home in Massachusetts."

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