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, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of the Atlantic had a wide-ranging effect on consumer habits and the division of labour within the home. Electricity was viewed by non-experts as potential threat to domestic order and welfare. This broadly interdisciplinary study relates to a website developed by the author on the history of electricity.
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<b>Graeme Gooday </b>is professor of the history of science and technology, in the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds. He is the author of <i>The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice</i>, <i>Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender in Late Nineteenth-Century Culture, 1880-1914</i>, and, with Stathis Arapostathis, <i>Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain</i>.
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