{"product_id":"the-morals-of-measurement-accuracy-irony-and-trust-in-late-victorian-electrical-practice-hardback-9780521430982","title":"The Morals of Measurement; Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice (Hardback) 9780521430982","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Morals of Measurement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAccuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book looks at the development of techniques for measuring electricity in the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eG. J. N. Gooday (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521430982, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 April 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: 'Gooday's analysis offers a superb historical account of how technological developments within the electrical enterprise not only stimulated new techniques of measurement, but also raised crucial questions including what a measurement actually was, who counted as the measurer, and who would be trusted n the measuring process.' The Historical Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories of quantification and electrical technology in nineteenth-century Britain, Germany and France. It shows how the advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the industrialization of electrical measurement from a skilled labour-intensive activity to a mechanized practice. Challenging traditional accounts that focus on the metrological standards used in measurement, this book shows the central importance of trust when measurement was undertaken in an increasingly complex division of labour. Alongside ambiguities about the very nature of measurement and the respective responsibilities of humans and technologies in generating error-free numbers, the book also addresses controversies over the changing identity of the measurer through the themes of body, gender and authorship. The reader will gain fresh insights into a period when measurement was widely treated as the definitive means of gaining knowledge of the world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Moralizing measurement: (dis) trust in the people, instruments and techniques\u003cbr\u003e 2. Meanings of measurements and accounts of accuracy\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mercurial trust and resistive measures: rethinking the 'metals controversy' of 1860–94\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reading technologies: trust, the embodied instrument user and the visualization of current measurement\u003cbr\u003e 5. Coupled problems of self-induction: the unparalleled and the unmeasurable in AC technology\u003cbr\u003e 6. Measurement at a distance: fairness, trustworthiness and gender in reading the domestic electrical meter.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Electricity, electromagnetism \u0026amp; magnetism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Electricity, electromagnetism \u0026amp; magnetism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Electricity,%20electromagnetism%20\u0026amp;%20magnetism%20%5BPHK%5D%22\"\u003ePHK\u003c\/a\u003e], History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913273073944,"sku":"9780521430982","price":95.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521430982i_8c93a89d-de3a-417c-ac37-01dff6827ee3.jpg?v=1691381733","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-morals-of-measurement-accuracy-irony-and-trust-in-late-victorian-electrical-practice-hardback-9780521430982","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}