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9781606189955: Playing With Fire: Histories of the Lightning Rod
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ISBN 10: 1606189956 ISBN 13: 9781606189955
Casa editrice: Amer Philosophical Society, 2009

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This collection of historical and scientific studies shows the impressive significance of the invention, development, and use of the lightning rod in the past 250 years. The rod was a device long taken to be a symbol of enlightenment and utility, judged by some people the very first practical application of the experimental physical sciences to truly practical ends; opposition to its introduction was similarly taken to be a sign of superstition. These essays move beyond the lightning rods’ storied revolutionary symbolism to explore the range of techniques and experiments that fashioned conductors and their varied meanings. “An intriguing and entertaining history of one of modernity’s most cherished technoscientific objects.” Illustrations.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Peter Heering is Professor of Physics and Physics Didaclics at the Universiat Flensburg. Oliver Hochadel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. David Rhees is Executive Director of the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Editore
Amer Philosophical Society
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1606189956
ISBN 13 
9781606189955
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
290
Redattore
Heering Peter, Hochadel Oliver, Rhees David J.
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