Beschreibung:
This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Das Theater der Elektrizität. Technologie und Spektakel im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert by Ulf Otto, published by J.B.Metzler, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The author has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically.
Introduction.- 1. Incandescence: electrical installations and their hygienic legitimation.- 2. Oxidation: material culture and industrialized theater.- 3. Regulators: control techniques and electroaesthetic expectations of salvation.- 4. Fabrication: atmospheres and their technical foundations.- 5. Attractions: Electricity exhibitions and their staging.- 6. Communication: electric media and telegraphic world theater.- 7. Industrial poetry: danced progress and civilization as kaleidoscope.- 8. Luminaries: figurations of technology and desirable projections.- 10. Force fields: Science theater and the spaces of electrical engineering.- 11. Conclusion: aesthetics of electricity.- Bibliography.- List of figures.