When Physics became king
Chapter 1 Queen of the sciences
Chapter 4 the science of showmanship
Electricity epitomizing the process
19th c
electricity and showmanship
electricity
Leyden jar elctric effluvium
genteel coffeehouse habituses
popoular lectureres John Desaguliers, Benjamin Martin
lighting rod by Benjamin commercial
Exhibition
Charles babage thought science / industrial arts were independent
Victorian public mind
Crystal Palace, great exhibition
many science men were aginst showmanship
Foundation of a new science: Luigi Galvani animal frog elec galvanism
Volta
Humphry Davy
Ritter in demonstraing unity of force
Oersted
Faraday induction to creat electricity from magnetisimi
He also discovered the identity of galvanic elc and magnetic elec a few years later
Voltaelctrometr to measure the quantity elc through air pumped in water
thought of elctricity as...