Name: Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety From the Telegraph to the X-Ray (en Inglés)
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Author: Linda Simon
ISBN: 9780156032445

portada Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety From the Telegraph to the X-Ray (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Mariner Books

Autor

Linda Simon

Año

2005

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

357

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.75

ISBN

0156032449

ISBN13

9780156032445

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xix - c. 1800-c. 1899
Historia de américa

Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety From the Telegraph to the X-Ray (en Inglés)

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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 the first 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.