Book ID: CBB000201509

Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century (2002)

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Otis, Laura (Author)


University of Michigan Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: viii + 268 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Discusses scientists of various fields, including Luigi Galvani, Hermann von Helmholtz, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, and Werner von Siemens, and juxtaposes physiology, engineering, and literature of the 19th century.


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Review Wald, Priscilla (2003) Review of "Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (p. 452). unapi

Review Hyman, Anthony (2002) Review of "Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 738). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gillespie, Sarah
Parent, André
Cambiaghi, Marco
John, Richard R.
Fons Vanden Berghen
Hochfelder, David P.
Journals
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Medicina Historica
Funkgeschichte
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Publishers
Pantheon Books
Ohio State University Press
McFarland
New York, City University of
Concepts
Technology
Telegraphy
Daguerreotype
Electricity; magnetism
Physics
Telegraphs; telephones
People
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Siemens, Werner von
Galvani, Luigi
Volta, Alessandro
Wohlwill, Emil
Vail, Alfred Lewis
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
Italy
Germany
Europe
Institutions
United States. Patent Office
Institute for the History of Electricity
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Germany)
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