TY - GEN AU - Peña,Carolyn Thomas de la TI - The body electric: how strange machines built the modern American T2 - ACLS Humanities E-Book PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Quacks and quackery KW - Medical instruments and apparatus KW - Electrotherapeutics N1 - Description based on title screen of 2003-12-01; "This electronic book contains the following additional feature(s) not available in the print version: Historical pamphlets and advertisements (90 additional images)"--Copyright and Permissions; E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references and index; The machine-built body -- Measuring mechanical strength -- Exploring electric limits -- Powering the intimate body -- "Radiomania" limits the energy dream -- Conclusion: the end of an era?; Electronic text and image data; Transcribed from: The; body electric : how strange machines built the modern American; New York : New York University Press, c2003; xvi, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm; (American history and culture (New York University Press)); 0814719538; 0520241207 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb90018 ER -