This unusual book traces the history of public and technical exhibitions, from their origins in the late 18th Century to present day, and, particularly, how the

This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology,

In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this si

Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban power plants. A mysterious force, which was

This volume suggests that the fierce debates over patent law and the discussion of invention and inventors in popular texts during the 19th century informed the