[PDF.47is] The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice

The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice

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 | #5016916 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2011-02-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.71 x5.98l,1.01 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A remarkable achievement|By Delta 88 Royale|This is a remarkable book by an outstanding historian of science and technology. By uncovering previously hidden or forgotten controversies in 19th-century electrical practices, technologies, and techniques, Gooday makes us think anew about the meaning of accuracy in the 21st century. Whom should we trust? What are the ironies of o| |"Gooday has produced a detailed and nuanced account of late-Victorian measurement that makes quite clear how the culture of metrology was deeply embedded in Victorian culture. His skillful tracings of the netwroks of physicists, engineers, instrument makers,

The Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories of quantification and of electrical technology in nineteenth-century Britain, Germany, and France. It shows how the advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the industrialisation of electrical measurement from a skilled labour-intensive activity to a mechanised practice relying on radically new kinds of instruments. Challenging traditional accounts that focus on metrological standards, this b...

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