Bruce J. Hunt (Austin University of Texas)

Imperial Science

Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

A vast network of telegraph cables spread around the globe in the second half of the nineteenth century. By showing how deeply this network shaped work in electrical physics, Bruce J. Hunt sheds new light on both the history of the Victorian British Empire and the relationship between science and technology.

Produktdetails

• Science in History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830669
• ISBN-10: 1108830668
• Artikelnr.: 60012413

Autorenporträt

Bruce J. Hunt is Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. 'An imperial science'
1. 'An ill-understood effect of induction': telegraphy and field theory in Victorian Britain
2. Wildman Whitehouse, William Thomson, and the first Atlantic cable
3. Redeeming failure: the joint committee investigation
4. Units and standards: the ohm is where the art is
5. The ohm, the speed of light, and Maxwell's theory of the electromagnetic field
6. To rule the waves: Britain's cable empire and the making of 'Maxwell's equations'
Epilogue. Full circle.