Electrifying History: expertise, risk and gender in late Victorian culture

激动人心的历史：维多利亚时代晚期文化中的专业知识、风险和性别

• 批准号: 113151/1
• 负责人: Graeme Gooday
• 金额: $ 1.79万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=113151%2F1
• 关键词: Electrifying; History; expertise; risk; gender

This project reinterprets how electricity entered British domestic life before World War 1. Usually seen as an inevitable result of industrialisation, I argue instead of electrification was accomplished only with great difficulty. A new breed of 'experts' sought to counter the reputation of electricity as a risk-prone, worryingly intangible and an unpleasant illuminate. Controversially extending the boundaries of technical expertise, they popularized electric lighting as a safe luxury commodity invoking utopian electricity futures and images of electricity as a magical female servant. Notwithstanding female's expert's advocacy of electrical techniques for cooking and heating, many householders chose instead to trust gas.

这个项目重新解释了第一次世界大战前电力如何进入英国家庭生活。通常被认为是工业化的必然结果，我认为电气化是在巨大的困难下才实现的。一批新的“专家”试图反驳电力的名声，即电力是一种容易发生风险的、令人担忧的无形资产，也是一种令人不快的照明。他们有争议地扩展了技术专长的界限，将电灯作为一种安全的奢侈品推广开来，唤起了乌托邦式的电力期货和电力作为魔法女仆的形象。尽管女性专家提倡用电技术做饭和取暖，但许多户主还是选择相信煤气。

项目成果

Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-century Sites and Experiences

市场中的科学：十九世纪的遗址和经验

• 发表时间: 2007
• 作者: Fyfe, Aileen;Lightman, Bernard
• 通讯作者: Lightman, Bernard

Geographies of Nineteenth-century Science

十九世纪科学地理学

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Livingstone, David N.;Withers, Charles W. J.
• 通讯作者: Withers, Charles W. J.

Decorative Electricity: Standen and the Aesthetics of New Lighting Technologies in the Nineteenth Century Home

装饰性电力：斯坦登和十九世纪新照明技术的美学

• DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2013.822687
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Nineteenth-Century Contexts
• 作者: Moore A

Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880-1914

驯化电力：技术、不确定性和性别，1880-1914 年

• 发表时间: 2008
• 作者: Gooday Graeme