| Description |
xxv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Moralizing measurement : (dis)trust in people, instruments, and techniques -- 2. Meanings of measurement and accounts of accuracy -- 3. Mercurial trust and resistive measures : rethinking the 'metals controversy', 1860-1894 -- 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Subject |
Electric measurements -- History -- 19th century.
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Electric lighting -- History -- 19th century.
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| LC no. |
2003053291 |
| ISBN |
0521430984 : |
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