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100 1 $aSimon, Linda,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059697
245 10 $aDark light :$belectricity and anxiety from the telegraph to the X-ray /$cLinda Simon.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aOrlando :$bHarcourt,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $a357 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [323]-345) and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tWonders -- $g1.$tWorking great mischief -- $g2.$tBeneficence -- $g3.$tWilderness of wires -- $g4.$tNerve juice -- $g5.$tSparks -- $gPt. II.$tCravings of the heart -- $g6.$tThe inconstant battery -- $g7.$tHaunted brains -- $g8.$tThe inscrutable something -- $gPt. III.$tElectrostrikes -- $g9.$tLive wires -- $g10.$tMagical keys -- $g11.$tDark light.
520 1 $a"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.
650 0 $aElectrification$xPublic opinion$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aElectrification$xPublic opinion$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aElectricity$xPsychological aspects$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aElectricity$xSocial aspects$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aFear.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047514
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/har041/2003019994.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003019994.html
852 00 $bmil$hTK17$i.S56 2004