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<TABLE><TR><TD> <TD>List of Illustrations<TR><TD> <TD>Introduction: Electricity, Experiment, and theExperimental Life <TR><TD>Ch. 1 <TD>The Errors of aFashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution<TR><TD>Ch. 2 <TD>The Vast Laboratory of Nature: WilliamSturgeon and Popular Electricity <TR><TD>Ch. 3<TD>Blending Instruction with Amusement: London's Galleries ofPractical Science <TR><TD>Ch. 4 <TD>A Science ofExperiment and Observation: The Rise and Fall of the London ElectricalSociety <TR><TD>Ch. 5 <TD>The Right Arm of God:Electricity and the Experimental Production of Life <TR><TD>Pt.2 <TD>Managing Machine Culture <TR><TD><TD>Introduction: From Performance to Process <TR><TD>Ch.6 <TD>They Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity<TR><TD>Ch. 7 <TD>To Annihilate Time and Space: TheInvention of the Telegraph <TR><TD>Ch. 8 <TD>Under MedicalDirection: The Regulation of Electrotherapy <TR><TD><TD>Coda: The Disciplining of Experimental Life <TR><TD><TD>Notes <TR><TD> <TD>Bibliography<TR><TD> <TD>Index