The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice

Graeme J. N. Gooday

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1. Moralizing measurement: (dis) trust in the people, instruments and techniques 2. Meanings of measurements and accounts of accuracy 3. Mercurial trust and resistive measures: rethinking the 'metals controversy' of 1860-94 4. Reading technologies: trust, the embodied instrument user and the visualization of current measurement 5. Coupled problems of self-induction: the unparalleled and the unmeasurable in AC technology 6. Measurement at a distance: fairness, trustworthiness and gender in reading the domestic electrical meter.

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