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The Morals of Measurement - Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice (Paperback)
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The Morals of Measurement - Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice (Paperback)
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The Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories
of quantification and of electrical technology in
nineteenth-century Britain, Germany, and France. It shows how the
advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the
industrialisation of electrical measurement from a skilled
labour-intensive activity to a mechanised practice relying on
radically new kinds of instruments. Challenging traditional
accounts that focus on metrological standards, this book shows
instead the centrality of trust when measurement was undertaken in
an increasingly complex division of labour with manufactured
hardware. Case studies demonstrate how difficult late Victorians
found it to agree upon which electrical practitioners, instruments,
and metals were most trustworthy and what they could hope to
measure with any accuracy. Subtle ambiguities arose too over what
constituted 'measurement' or 'accuracy' and thus over the
respective responsibilities of humans and technologies in
electrical practice. Running alongside these concerns, the themes
of body, gender, and authorship feature importantly in
controversies over the changing identity of the measurer. In
examining how new groups of electrical experts and consumers
construed the fairness of metering for domestic lighting, this work
charts the early moral debates over what is now a ubiquitous
technology for quantifying electricity. Accordingly readers will
gain fresh insights, tinged with irony, on a period in which
measurement was treated as the definitive means of gaining
knowledge of the world.
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