Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray by Linda Simon

Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray

Linda Simon

368 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history technology challenging informative slow-paced

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The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb,...

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