| List of Illustrations | |
| Introduction: Electricity, Experiment, and the Experimental Life | |
| Ch. 1 | The Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution |
| Ch. 2 | The Vast Laboratory of Nature: William Sturgeon and Popular Electricity |
| Ch. 3 | Blending Instruction with Amusement: London's Galleries of Practical Science |
| Ch. 4 | A Science of Experiment and Observation: The Rise and Fall of the London Electrical Society |
| Ch. 5 | The Right Arm of God: Electricity and the Experimental Production of Life |
| Pt. 2 | Managing Machine Culture |
| Introduction: From Performance to Process | |
| Ch. 6 | They Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity |
| Ch. 7 | To Annihilate Time and Space: The Invention of the Telegraph |
| Ch. 8 | Under Medical Direction: The Regulation of Electrotherapy |
| Coda: The Disciplining of Experimental Life | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index |
A fine book... [It] adds substantially to our understanding not only of the history of electricity but also of a seminal period in the emergence of modern science and technology. -- Bruce J. Hunt
"A fine book. . . . [It] adds substantially to our understanding not only of the history of electricity but also of a seminal period in the emergence of modern science and technology."—Bruce J. Hunt
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