Tractable Thunder: Early Days of Electricity, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2016

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Electricity lost its magic over the course the 18th and 19th centuries. The "invisible fire" steadily transitioned from a mysterious force of wonder to a mundane reality of daily modern life. In this two-part edition of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and

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1:30.0	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.
1:45.0	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind by me, Robert William, and I'm Jim McCormick.
1:49.0	This is going to be the second part of a two-part series on the Weird History of Electricity.
1:54.0	Different than the history of electricity you might have learned about in school with the invention of the various different technologies.
2:01.0	Here we wanted to focus on the strange social and psychic undercurrents, if you will, of the development of electricity in human society and knowledge.
2:11.0	Yeah, kind of the midlife crisis of human cultures, understanding and attitudes towards electricity as it goes from pure mystery to the mundane.
2:22.0	So if you haven't heard part one, before you listen to this episode, you should probably go back and listen to part one.
2:29.0	But if you don't care about coming in in the middle of a conversation, then you're here, then that's fine.
2:35.0	Yeah, I mean a lot of the episodes we discuss are going to, they can stand on their own, but we do highly encourage you to check out part one.
2:42.0	Okay, so I'm going to start in a kind of counterintuitive place for this journey of psychic electricity.
2:49.0	And that's with the English writer and poet Thomas Hardy.
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