Imperial science: cable telegraphy and electrical physics in the Victorian British empire
In: Science in history
"An ill-understood effect of induction" : telegraphy and field theory in Victorian Britain -- Wildman Whitehouse, William Thomson, and the first Atlantic cable -- Redeeming failure : the joint committee investigation -- Units and standards : the ohm is where the art is -- The ohm, the speed of light, and Maxwell's theory of the electromagnetic field -- To rule the waves : Britain's cable empire and the making of "Maxwell's equations."