Author: Society for the Illustration and Encouragement of Practical Science (LONDON)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Gallery for the Exhibition of Objects blending Instruction with Amusement ... Catalogue for May, 1836. Fourteenth edition
Author: Society for the Illustration and Encouragement of Practical Science (LONDON)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Gallery for the Exhibition of Objects Blending Instruction with Amusement
Author: Society for the Illustration and Encouragement of Practical Science, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850
Author: Sara PennellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441191860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the construction of domestic relations between husband and wife, masters, mistresses and servants and householders and outsiders; and as a crucial resource in contemporary heritage landscapes.
Frankenstein's Children
Author: Iwan Rhys MorusPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140084777X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity. In examining this period, Iwan Morus moves beyond the conventional focus on the celebrated Michael Faraday to discuss other electrical experimenters, who aspired to spectacular public displays of their discoveries. Revealing connections among such diverse fields as scientific lecturing, laboratory research, telegraphic communication, industrial electroplating, patent conventions, and innovative medical therapies, Morus also shows how electrical culture was integrated into a new machine-dominated, consumer society. He sees the history of science as part of the history of production, and emphasizes the labor and material resources needed to make electricity work. Frankenstein's Children explains that Faraday, with his colleagues at the Royal Society and the Royal Institution, looked at science as the province of a highly trained elite, who presented their abstract picture of nature only to select groups. The book contrasts Faraday's views with those of other practitioners, to whom science was a practical, skill-based activity open to all. In venues such as the Galleries of Practical Science, electrical phenomena were presented to a public less distinguished but no less enthusiastic and curious than Faraday's audiences. William Sturgeon, for instance, emphasized building apparatus and exhibiting electrical phenomena, while chemists, instrument-makers, and popular lecturers supported the London Electrical Society. These previously little studied "electricians" contributed much to the birth of "Frankenstein's children"--the not completely benign effects of electricity on a new consumer world. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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