Richard Noakes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1086112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Noakes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Noakes |
| SIGNATURE | NOAKES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8260-2934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making the Invisible Matter
That Picturing Aura has been by released by MIT Press speaks volumes for its intellectual achievement. The publisher is renowned for its titles in science, technology and medicine, as well as human...
Mechanising Mediums
Thoughts and spirits by wireless
This paper revises current understandings of the connections between electrical and psychic forms of communication in the early twentieth century. It builds on and moves beyond scholarly studies that explore the metaphorical and analogical uses of electrical communication in understanding telepathy, spiritualism and other psychic phenomena. I argue that in American and British cultures of wireless telegraphy, electrical experimentation, psychical…
Haunted thoughts of the careful experimentalist
Industrial research at the Eastern Telegraph Company, 1872–1929
By the late nineteenth century the submarine telegraph cable industry, which had blossomed in the 1850s, had reached what historians regard as technological maturity. For a host of commercial, cultural and technical reasons, the industry seems to have become conservative in its attitude towards technological development, which is reflected in the small scale of its staff and facilities for research and development. This paper argues that the atti…
Recreating Newton
Reviewed by: Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science Richard Noakes (bio) Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science, by Rebekah Higgitt; pp. vii + 304. London and Brookfield, VT: Pickering and Chatto, 2007, £60.00, $99.00. Since the 1980s historians such as Patricia Fara, Simon Schaffer, Larry Stewart, and Richard Yeo have demonstrated the …
The ‘world of the infinitely little’
Cromwell Varley FRS, electrical discharge and Victorian spiritualism
Cromwell Fleetwood Varley is chiefly remembered as a leading Victorian electrical engineer who was closely involved in the testing and laying of the successful transatlantic telegraph cables of the 1860s. Historians of physics principally regard him as a key figure in the ‘prehistory’ of the electron because in 1871 the Proceedings of the Royal Society published a paper in which he seemed to anticipate the corpuscular nature of cathode rays. For …
Science in the nineteenth-century periodical
In 1858 James Clerk Maxwell explained to his friend Lewis Campbell that ‘there are good books ... with which people may be as delighted as Mary Anne was with Faraday's lecture, of which she gave an account to Punch’.1 Maxwell was referring to a recent article in the leading British comic weekly in which the fictional ‘Mary Ann’ had described her visit to the Royal Institution.2 Possessing a notorious penchant for witticisms, Maxwell was an obviou…
Ethers, Religion and Politics in Late-Victorian Physics
No description available
"The "Bridge Which is between Physical and Psychical Research
No description available
Women, Science and Culture
publication-status: Published
Telegraphy is an occult art
In May 1862 Desmond G. Fitzgerald, the editor of the Electrician , lamented that telegraphy has been until lately an art occult even to many of the votaries of electrical science. Submarine telegraphy, initiated by a bold and tentative process – the laying of the Dover cable in the year 1850 – opened out a vast field of opportunity both to merit and competency, and to unscrupulous determination. For the purposes of the latter, the field was to be…
Telegraphy is an occult art
In May 1862 Desmond G. Fitzgerald, the editor of the Electrician , lamented that telegraphy has been until lately an art occult even to many of the votaries of electrical science. Submarine telegraphy, initiated by a bold and tentative process – the laying of the Dover cable in the year 1850 – opened out a vast field of opportunity both to merit and competency, and to unscrupulous determination. For the purposes of the latter, the field was to be…
Haunted thoughts of the careful experimentalist
The ‘world of the infinitely little’
Ethers, Religion and Politics in Late-Victorian Physics
No description available
"The "Bridge Which is between Physical and Psychical Research
No description available
Women, Science and Culture
publication-status: Published
Telegraphy is an occult art
In May 1862 Desmond G. Fitzgerald, the editor of the Electrician , lamented that telegraphy has been until lately an art occult even to many of the votaries of electrical science. Submarine telegraphy, initiated by a bold and tentative process – the laying of the Dover cable in the year 1850 – opened out a vast field of opportunity both to merit and competency, and to unscrupulous determination. For the purposes of the latter, the field was to be…
Women, Science and Culture
publication-status: Published
"The "Bridge Which is between Physical and Psychical Research
No description available
Science in the nineteenth-century periodical
In 1858 James Clerk Maxwell explained to his friend Lewis Campbell that ‘there are good books ... with which people may be as delighted as Mary Anne was with Faraday's lecture, of which she gave an account to Punch’.1 Maxwell was referring to a recent article in the leading British comic weekly in which the fictional ‘Mary Ann’ had described her visit to the Royal Institution.2 Possessing a notorious penchant for witticisms, Maxwell was an obviou…
Ethers, Religion and Politics in Late-Victorian Physics
No description available
Cromwell Varley FRS, electrical discharge and Victorian spiritualism
Cromwell Fleetwood Varley is chiefly remembered as a leading Victorian electrical engineer who was closely involved in the testing and laying of the successful transatlantic telegraph cables of the 1860s. Historians of physics principally regard him as a key figure in the ‘prehistory’ of the electron because in 1871 the Proceedings of the Royal Society published a paper in which he seemed to anticipate the corpuscular nature of cathode rays. For …
Recreating Newton
Reviewed by: Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science Richard Noakes (bio) Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science, by Rebekah Higgitt; pp. vii + 304. London and Brookfield, VT: Pickering and Chatto, 2007, £60.00, $99.00. Since the 1980s historians such as Patricia Fara, Simon Schaffer, Larry Stewart, and Richard Yeo have demonstrated the …
The ‘world of the infinitely little’
Haunted thoughts of the careful experimentalist
Industrial research at the Eastern Telegraph Company, 1872–1929
By the late nineteenth century the submarine telegraph cable industry, which had blossomed in the 1850s, had reached what historians regard as technological maturity. For a host of commercial, cultural and technical reasons, the industry seems to have become conservative in its attitude towards technological development, which is reflected in the small scale of its staff and facilities for research and development. This paper argues that the atti…
Thoughts and spirits by wireless
This paper revises current understandings of the connections between electrical and psychic forms of communication in the early twentieth century. It builds on and moves beyond scholarly studies that explore the metaphorical and analogical uses of electrical communication in understanding telepathy, spiritualism and other psychic phenomena. I argue that in American and British cultures of wireless telegraphy, electrical experimentation, psychical…
Mechanising Mediums
Making the Invisible Matter
That Picturing Aura has been by released by MIT Press speaks volumes for its intellectual achievement. The publisher is renowned for its titles in science, technology and medicine, as well as human...
History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (4 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (3 works)