G. J. N. Gooday

The Morals of Measurement

Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the development of techniques for measuring electricity in the late nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9780521187565
• ISBN-10: 0521187567
• Artikelnr.: 33081729

Inhaltsangabe

1. Moralizing measurement: (dis) trust in the people, instruments and
techniques; 2. Meanings of measurements and accounts of accuracy; 3.
Mercurial trust and resistive measures: rethinking the 'metals controversy'
of 1860-94; 4. Reading technologies: trust, the embodied instrument user
and the visualization of current measurement; 5. Coupled problems of
self-induction: the unparalleled and the unmeasurable in AC technology; 6.
Measurement at a distance: fairness, trustworthiness and gender in reading
the domestic electrical meter.