Playing with fire : histories of the lightning rod /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
American Philosophical Society,
2009.
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| Series: | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ;
v. 99, pt. 5. |
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Table of Contents:
- Enlighetening towers: public opinion, local authorities, and the reformation of meteorology in eighteenth century Italy / Paola Bertucci
- "In nebula nebularum": the dry fog of the summer of 1783 and the introduction of lightning rods in the German empire / Oliver Hochadel
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained: lightning and enlightenment in the Gazeta de Literatura de Mexico (1788-1795) / Fiona Clark
- Points or knobs: lightning rods and the basis of decision making in late eighteenth century British science / R. W. Home
- Styles of experimentation and the attempts to establish the lightning rod in pre-revolutionary Paris / Peter Heering
- "Eripuit caelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis": the political iconography of lightning in Europe and North America, 1750-1800 / Christian Fuhrmeister
- Lightning rods and commodification of risk in nineteenth century America / Arwen Mohun
- Earth grounds and heavenly spires: lightning rod men, patent inventors, and telegraphers / Elizabeth Cavicchi
- The lightning rod: a case study of eighteenth century model experiments / Willem D. Hackmann
- Prometheus' tools: instruments and apparatus used in atmospheric electricity research and experiments / Paolo Brenni
- A modern assessment of Benjamin Franklin' lightning rods / C. B. Moore, G. D. Aulich, and William Rison
- An invisible technology - what remains to be seen / Peter Heering and Oliver Hochadel.