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Imperial Science - Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire (Hardcover)
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Imperial Science - Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Science in History
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, British firms and
engineers built, laid, and ran a vast global network of submarine
telegraph cables. For the first time, cities around the world were
put into almost instantaneous contact, with profound effects on
commerce, international affairs, and the dissemination of news.
Science, too, was strongly affected, as cable telegraphy exposed
electrical researchers to important new phenomena while also
providing a new and vastly larger market for their expertise. By
examining the deep ties that linked the cable industry to work in
electrical physics in the nineteenth century - culminating in James
Clerk Maxwell's formulation of his theory of the electromagnetic
field - Bruce J. Hunt sheds new light both on the history of the
Victorian British Empire and on the relationship between science
and technology.
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