04168nam 2200661Ia 450 991081395580332120240513191156.00-226-07891-41-283-05812-X978661305812610.7208/9780226078915(CKB)2550000000031172(EBL)660537(OCoLC)704274080(SSID)ssj0000468096(PQKBManifestationID)11291408(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468096(PQKBWorkID)10497392(PQKB)10434856(MiAaPQ)EBC660537(DE-B1597)535666(OCoLC)1135590877(DE-B1597)9780226078915(Au-PeEL)EBL660537(CaPaEBR)ebr10448747(CaONFJC)MIL305812(EXLCZ)99255000000003117219931015d1994 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe creation of scientific effects Heinrich Hertz and electric waves /Jed Z. Buchwald1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Pressc19941 online resource (497 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-07888-4 0-226-07887-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-478) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- ONE. Introduction: Heinrich Hertz, Maker of Effects -- TWO. Forms of Electrodynamics -- THREE. Realizing Potentials in the Laboratory -- FOUR. A Budding Career -- FIVE. Devices for Induction -- SIX. Hertz's Early Exploration of Helmholtz's Concepts -- SEVEN. Rotating Spheres -- EIGHT. Elastic Interactions -- NINE. Specific Powers in the Laboratory -- TEN. The Cathode Ray as a Vehicle for Success -- ELEVEN. Frustration -- TWELVE. Hertz's Argument -- THIRTEEN. Assumption X -- FOURTEEN. A Novel Device -- FIFTEEN. How the Resonator Became an Electric Probe -- SIXTEEN. Electric Propagation Produced -- SEVENTEEN. Electric Waves Manipulated -- EIGHTEEN. Conclusion: Restraint and Reconstruction -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThis book is an attempt to reconstitute the tacit knowledge-the shared, unwritten assumptions, values, and understandings-that shapes the work of science. Jed Z. Buchwald uses as his focus the social and intellectual world of nineteenth-century German physics. Drawing on the lab notes, published papers, and unpublished manuscripts of Heinrich Hertz, Buchwald recreates Hertz's 1887 invention of a device that produced electromagnetic waves in wires. The invention itself was serendipitous and the device was quickly transformed, but Hertz's early experiments led to major innovations in electrodynamics. Buchwald explores the difficulty Hertz had in reconciling the theories of other physicists, including Hermann von Helmholtz and James Clerk Maxwell, and he considers the complex and often problematic connections between theory and experiment. In this first detailed scientific biography of Hertz and his scientific community, Buchwald demonstrates that tacit knowledge can be recovered so that we can begin to identify the unspoken rules that govern scientific practice.Electric wavesPhysicistsGermanyelectric waves, heinrich hertz, science, biography, physics, germany, lab notes, invention, electromagnetic, wires, innovation, discovery, experiment, scientific method, community, james clerk maxwell, hermann von helmholtz, tacit knowledge, electrodynamics, induction, cathode ray, energy, radiators, waveguides, fechner-weber theory, conductors, polarization, charge, nonfiction.Electric waves.Physicists537UB 2420rvkBuchwald Jed Z45408MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813955803321The creation of scientific effects4002394UNINA