Author: Linda Simon
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B000FUO0NI
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B000FUO0NI
Dark Light : Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. Get Dark Light computer books for free.
But in 1879 Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today?
In Dark Light, Linda Simon offers the first cultural history that delves into those questions, using newspapers, nove Check Dark Light our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.
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Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today?
In Dark Light, Linda Simon offers the first cultural history that delves into those questions, using newspapers, nove
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