Graeme Gooday
Biographic Data
| ID | 1070285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graeme Gooday |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graeme |
| FAMILY NAME | Gooday |
| SIGNATURE | GOODAY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4300-471X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Jaipreet Virdi, Echoes of Care
Testing Hearing
Reviewed by: Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality ed. by Viktoria Tkaczyk et al. Graeme Gooday (bio) Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality Edited by Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 352. Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality Edited by Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 352. That hearing norms are "built i…
A Pioneer of Connection
Edward J. Gillin. The Victorian Palace of Science
On October 16, 1834, a huge fire swept through the Palace of Westminster in central London, destroying much of its medieval timber and plaster edifice. While the often violent turbulence of Chartist struggles had reached Parliament’s ears many times in the preceding years, this particular conflagration was no act of insurgency or sabotage. In fact, what Guy Fawkes and his associates had failed to accomplish by gunpowder plot a little more than tw…
Simon Werrett. Thrifty Science
Simon Werrett. Thrifty Science: Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment Simon Werrett. Thrifty Science: Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment. Chicago: Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2019. 304 pp. Graeme Gooday Graeme Gooday University of Leeds. Address: G-10 Michael Sadler Building, School of Philosophy, Religion & History of Science, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom …
Powering the Nation
Reviewed by: Powering the Nation: Images of the Shannon Scheme and Electricity in Ireland by Sorcha O'Brien Graeme Gooday (bio) Powering the Nation: Images of the Shannon Scheme and Electricity in Ireland. By Sorcha O'Brien. Newbridge: Irish Academic Press, 2017. Pp. 344. Paperback €29.99. This thematically cogent and lavishly illustrated volume is a distinct departure from previous narratives of national electrification. Design historian Sorcha …
Electrifying the country house
Could country house museums be indispensable sites for learning about both science as well as history? Given current logistical constraints, would it be worthwhile for school teachers to arrange student visits to such places to learn about STEM subjects? At first sight such epitomes of British heritage do not appear to offer much to such audiences. However, recent research shows that some country houses were once key sites of technological innova…
From hydroelectricity to the National Grid
This paper explores the changing experiences of electricity consumption in British country houses up to the early years of national electricity supply. We identify three stages of domestic electrification: the ‘experimental’ stage, when the technology was viable only for limited household purposes; the ‘fashionable’ stage when electrical lighting was rendered an aesthetic luxury; and finally the normalisation stage, when electricity was treated a…
Listening in combat – surveillance technologies beyond the visual in the First World War
The arts of combat have long motivated humans to extend the range of, and refine the capacities of, their senses. For centuries, innovations from both military and civilian origins have extended and enhanced those capacities in ever-escalating strategic efforts to secure crucial intelligence both to win battles and win new markets. Much is known about the visual technologies that co-evolved between civilian and military usage: the telescope in th…
Patents and Publics
It is all very well to note the hyperbole about patents and 'intellectual property' in the recent battles between technology companies such as Apple, Samsung and HTC. But how can museums productively use collection items marked with a patent beyond workaday tasks of identification and cataloguing? We argue that information on patents can enhance visitors' critical engagement with museum displays; complex ownership claims and counter-claims in pat…
Museums, objects, and historical meaning
Once upon a time, writing the histories of technical artefacts was the preserve of curators and antiquarians. Intellectually ambitious historians of science and technology habitually spilled their
Decorative Electricity
Electrical technoscience and physics in transition, 1880–1920
Combative patenting
Vague and Artificial
This essay argues for the historicity of applied science as a contested category within laissez-faire Victorian British science. This distinctively pre-twentieth-century notion of applied science as a self-sustaining, autonomous enterprise was thrown into relief from the 1880s by a campaign on the part of T. H. Huxley and his followers to promote instead the primacy of "pure" science. Their attempt to relegate applied science to secondary status …
Playing with Fire
Power struggles
Power struggles: scientific authority and the creation of practical electricity before Edison." , 51(5), pp. 799–800
Tame Technology Studies
Liars, Experts and Authorities
Placing or Replacing the Laboratory in the History of Science
This essay presents an alternative to interpretations of laboratories as institutions for controlled investigation of nature that are either placeless or "set apart." It historicizes the claim by showing how the meaning of "laboratory" has both changed and diversified over the last two centuries. Originally a laboratory could be a site of organic growth or material manufacture, but it can now be a specialized domain for technological development,…
Does Science Education Need the History of Science
This essay argues that science education can gain from close engagement with the history of science both in the training of prospective vocational scientists and in educating the broader public about the nature of science. First it shows how historicizing science in the classroom can improve the pedagogical experience of science students and might even help them turn into more effective professional practitioners of science. Then it examines how …
Nervous Conditions
History and philosophy of science at Leeds
In 2006–07 the Division of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of Leeds celebrates its first half-century. Whereas the city might claim Joseph Priestley as its first historian of science[1][1] and Norman Campbell as its first philosopher of science,[2][2] the founders of HPS
Cry ‘Good for history, Cambridge and Saint George’
The Morals of Measurement
The Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories of quantification and electrical technology in nineteenth-century Britain, Germany and France. It shows how the advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the industrialization of electrical measurement from a skilled labour-intensive activity to a mechanized practice. Challenging traditional accounts that focus on the metrological standards used in measurement, this boo…
The Morals of Measurement
The Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories of quantification and electrical technology in nineteenth-century Britain, Germany and France. It shows how the advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the industrialization of electrical measurement from a skilled labour-intensive activity to a mechanized practice. Challenging traditional accounts that focus on the metrological standards used in measurement, this boo…
Precision measurement and the genesis of physics teaching laboratories in Victorian Britain
The appearance and proliferation of physics laboratories in the academic institutions of Britain between 1865 and 1885 is an established feature of Victorian science. However, neither of the two existing modern accounts of this development have adequately documented the predominant function of these early physics laboratories as centres for the teaching of physics, characteristically stressing instead the exceptional cases of the research laborat…
Placing or Replacing the Laboratory in the History of Science
This essay presents an alternative to interpretations of laboratories as institutions for controlled investigation of nature that are either placeless or "set apart." It historicizes the claim by showing how the meaning of "laboratory" has both changed and diversified over the last two centuries. Originally a laboratory could be a site of organic growth or material manufacture, but it can now be a specialized domain for technological development,…
Nature’ in the laboratory
What sort of activities took place in the academic laboratories developed for teaching the natural sciences in Britain between the 1860s and 1880s? What kind of social and instrumental regimes were implemented to make them meaningful and efficient venues of experimental instruction? As humanly constructed sites of experiment how were the metropolitan institutional contexts of these laboratories engineered to make them legitimate places to study ‘…
Vague and Artificial
This essay argues for the historicity of applied science as a contested category within laissez-faire Victorian British science. This distinctively pre-twentieth-century notion of applied science as a self-sustaining, autonomous enterprise was thrown into relief from the 1880s by a campaign on the part of T. H. Huxley and his followers to promote instead the primacy of "pure" science. Their attempt to relegate applied science to secondary status …
Liars, Experts and Authorities
Does Science Education Need the History of Science
This essay argues that science education can gain from close engagement with the history of science both in the training of prospective vocational scientists and in educating the broader public about the nature of science. First it shows how historicizing science in the classroom can improve the pedagogical experience of science students and might even help them turn into more effective professional practitioners of science. Then it examines how …
Constructing South Kensington
Biography and geography do not always sit easily together in historical narrative. With a few notable exceptions, due weight is rarely given to the significance of territorial features in tales of talented individuals. Biographers perhaps play down the untidy contingencies of civic, institutional and domestic spaces in order to present a historiographically coherent portrait of their subject. However, once the vicissitudes of environment and ever…
Electrical technoscience and physics in transition, 1880–1920
Precision measurement and the genesis of physics teaching laboratories in Victorian Britain
The appearance and proliferation of physics laboratories in the academic institutions of Britain between 1865 and 1885 is an established feature of Victorian science. However, neither of the two existing modern accounts of this development have adequately documented the predominant function of these early physics laboratories as centres for the teaching of physics, characteristically stressing instead the exceptional cases of the research laborat…
Nature’ in the laboratory
What sort of activities took place in the academic laboratories developed for teaching the natural sciences in Britain between the 1860s and 1880s? What kind of social and instrumental regimes were implemented to make them meaningful and efficient venues of experimental instruction? As humanly constructed sites of experiment how were the metropolitan institutional contexts of these laboratories engineered to make them legitimate places to study ‘…
Innovation as a Social Process
Constructing South Kensington
Biography and geography do not always sit easily together in historical narrative. With a few notable exceptions, due weight is rarely given to the significance of territorial features in tales of talented individuals. Biographers perhaps play down the untidy contingencies of civic, institutional and domestic spaces in order to present a historiographically coherent portrait of their subject. However, once the vicissitudes of environment and ever…
Re‐writing the ‘book of blots’
Although an interest in technological ‘failure’ has become prominent in recent history of technology, historians have not always clearly articulated the presuppositions of attributing ‘failure’ to technology. This paper undertakes a critical examination of two main historiographies of ‘failure’: ‘failure’ as categorization of ‘pathological’ technologies that clearly demarcates them from ‘successes’, and ‘failure’ as a mundane and inevitable prere…
British Society for the History of Science Report of Council for the year 1998
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Years
Cry ‘Good for history, Cambridge and Saint George’
The Morals of Measurement
The Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories of quantification and electrical technology in nineteenth-century Britain, Germany and France. It shows how the advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the industrialization of electrical measurement from a skilled labour-intensive activity to a mechanized practice. Challenging traditional accounts that focus on the metrological standards used in measurement, this boo…
History and philosophy of science at Leeds
In 2006–07 the Division of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of Leeds celebrates its first half-century. Whereas the city might claim Joseph Priestley as its first historian of science[1][1] and Norman Campbell as its first philosopher of science,[2][2] the founders of HPS
Nervous Conditions
Tame Technology Studies
Liars, Experts and Authorities
Placing or Replacing the Laboratory in the History of Science
This essay presents an alternative to interpretations of laboratories as institutions for controlled investigation of nature that are either placeless or "set apart." It historicizes the claim by showing how the meaning of "laboratory" has both changed and diversified over the last two centuries. Originally a laboratory could be a site of organic growth or material manufacture, but it can now be a specialized domain for technological development,…
Does Science Education Need the History of Science
This essay argues that science education can gain from close engagement with the history of science both in the training of prospective vocational scientists and in educating the broader public about the nature of science. First it shows how historicizing science in the classroom can improve the pedagogical experience of science students and might even help them turn into more effective professional practitioners of science. Then it examines how …
Power struggles
Power struggles: scientific authority and the creation of practical electricity before Edison." , 51(5), pp. 799–800
Playing with Fire
Vague and Artificial
This essay argues for the historicity of applied science as a contested category within laissez-faire Victorian British science. This distinctively pre-twentieth-century notion of applied science as a self-sustaining, autonomous enterprise was thrown into relief from the 1880s by a campaign on the part of T. H. Huxley and his followers to promote instead the primacy of "pure" science. Their attempt to relegate applied science to secondary status …
Decorative Electricity
Electrical technoscience and physics in transition, 1880–1920
Combative patenting
Museums, objects, and historical meaning
Once upon a time, writing the histories of technical artefacts was the preserve of curators and antiquarians. Intellectually ambitious historians of science and technology habitually spilled their
Patents and Publics
It is all very well to note the hyperbole about patents and 'intellectual property' in the recent battles between technology companies such as Apple, Samsung and HTC. But how can museums productively use collection items marked with a patent beyond workaday tasks of identification and cataloguing? We argue that information on patents can enhance visitors' critical engagement with museum displays; complex ownership claims and counter-claims in pat…
Listening in combat – surveillance technologies beyond the visual in the First World War
The arts of combat have long motivated humans to extend the range of, and refine the capacities of, their senses. For centuries, innovations from both military and civilian origins have extended and enhanced those capacities in ever-escalating strategic efforts to secure crucial intelligence both to win battles and win new markets. Much is known about the visual technologies that co-evolved between civilian and military usage: the telescope in th…
From hydroelectricity to the National Grid
This paper explores the changing experiences of electricity consumption in British country houses up to the early years of national electricity supply. We identify three stages of domestic electrification: the ‘experimental’ stage, when the technology was viable only for limited household purposes; the ‘fashionable’ stage when electrical lighting was rendered an aesthetic luxury; and finally the normalisation stage, when electricity was treated a…
Sociology (20 works) · Engineering (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · History (13 works) · History of Science and Medicine (13 works) · History of Science and Natural History (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Social science (7 works)