Article ID: CBB000932259

On Hybrid Objects and Their Trajectories: Beddoes, Davy and the Battery (2009)

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Pancaldi, Giuliano (Author)


Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 63
Pages: 247--262


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of a special issue.
Language: English

In this article I follow the voltaic battery as it was appropriated by the network of people centred on Thomas Beddoes and the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol. I use the case to explore the vicissitudes of a quite special `hybrid object': I consider what we can learn from the trajectories that objects such as the battery describe when they travel across expert communities.

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Authors & Contributors
Levere, Trevor H.
Stewart, Larry R.
Torrens, Hugh S.
Porter, Roy S.
Wallace, Harold Duane
Wright, A. J.
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Technology's Stories
Transactions of the International Congress on the Enlightenment
Technology and Culture
Publishers
University of Waterloo (Canada)
Routledge
Concepts
Medicine
Chemistry
Technology
Batteries
Biographies
Industry
People
Beddoes, Thomas
Davy, Humphry
Watt, James
Warren, John Collins
Volta, Alessandro
Thelwall, John
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
Great Britain
British Isles
Bristol (England)
United States
Germany
Institutions
Bristol Pneumatic Institute
Lunar Society of Birmingham (England)
Freie Universität Berlin
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