Author: Sir William Snow Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Rudimentary Treatise on Galvanism ...
Author: Sir William Snow Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Rudiments of Mineralogy; a Concise View of the General Properties of Minerals ... with ... Index
Author: Alexander RAMSAY (F.G.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Rudimentary Magnetism; Being a Concise Exposition of the General Principles of Magnetical Science and the Purposes to which it Has Been Applied
Author: Sir William Snow Harris
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Category : Magnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Rudiments of Mineralogy ...
Author: Alexander Ramsay (Jun.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Levelling
Author: Frederick W. Simms
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385227232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385227232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells
Author: Edmund Becket
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368822721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368822721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Rudimentary Treatise on Steam Boilers
Author: Robert Armstrong (C.E.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-boilers
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-boilers
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A Practical Treatise on the Joints Made and Used by Builders in the Construction of Various Kinds of Engineering and Architectural Works
Author: Wyvill James Christy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385473357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385473357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Rudimentary Astronomy
Author: Robert Main
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
Author: Stella Pratt-Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317007808
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. With electricity resisting clear description, even by those such as Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell who knew it best, Pratt-Smith argues that electricity was both metaphorically suggestive and open to imaginative speculation. Her book engages with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading midcentury novelists, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray and Wilkie Collins. Examining the work of William Harrison Ainsworth and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pratt-Smith explores how Victorian novelists attributed magical qualities to electricity, imbuing it with both the romance of the past and the thrill of the future. She concludes with a case study of Benjamin Lumley’s Another World, which presents an enticing fantasy of electricity’s potential based on contemporary developments. Ultimately, her book contends that writing and reading about electricity appropriated and expanded its imaginative scope, transformed its factual origins and applications and contravened the bounds of literary genres and disciplinary constraints.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317007808
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. With electricity resisting clear description, even by those such as Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell who knew it best, Pratt-Smith argues that electricity was both metaphorically suggestive and open to imaginative speculation. Her book engages with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading midcentury novelists, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray and Wilkie Collins. Examining the work of William Harrison Ainsworth and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pratt-Smith explores how Victorian novelists attributed magical qualities to electricity, imbuing it with both the romance of the past and the thrill of the future. She concludes with a case study of Benjamin Lumley’s Another World, which presents an enticing fantasy of electricity’s potential based on contemporary developments. Ultimately, her book contends that writing and reading about electricity appropriated and expanded its imaginative scope, transformed its factual origins and applications and contravened the bounds of literary genres and disciplinary constraints.