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" The morals of measurement : "
Graeme J.N. Gooday.
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BL
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957299
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b711669
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| Main Entry
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Gooday, Graeme.
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| Title & Author
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The morals of measurement : : accuracy, irony, and trust in late Victorian electrical practice /\ Graeme J.N. Gooday.
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2004.
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xxv, 285 pages ;; 24 cm
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0521430984
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: 9780521430982
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Moralizing measurement: (dis) trust in the people, instruments and techniques -- 2. Meanings of instruments 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 alternating current technology -- 6. Measurement at a distance: fairness, trustworthiness, and gender in reading the domestic electrical meter.
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"A contribution to the social histories of quantification and electrical technology in 19th century Britain, Germany and France ... Case studies demonstrate how difficult late Victorians found it to agree upon which electrical practitioners, instruments, and metals were most trustworthy and what they could hope to measure with any accuracy"--Book cover.
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Electric lighting-- History-- 19th century.
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Electric measurements-- History-- 19th century.
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50.11 history of technology.
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Electric lighting.
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Electric measurements.
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| Dewey Classification
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621.37/09/034
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TK275.G66 2004
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50.11bcl
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