The Making of Modern Science by Knight David

Author:Knight, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley

Figure 19 Warning signals for impending bad weather: R. FitzRoy, The Weather Book, London: Longman, 1863, p. 350

Meanwhile, Faraday’s experiments on electromagnetism were being developed, on the one hand by a new profession of electrical engineers, bringing electric light and power. On the other hand, his insights into its relations to light and other radiation were being put into mathematical form, and extended experimentally, by Maxwell, Heinrich Hertz (1857–94), Crookes, J.J. Thomson and Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), yielding fresh understanding and giving the twentieth century its cathode-ray tubes, electrons and radio. Electricity no longer meant exciting demonstration lectures or quack medicine, but was perceived as one of the fundamental forces of the universe. At last, Newtonian dreams were being realized across the board, and scientists had good reason for proper pride. They pressed for a much greater role for science in education and the wide diffusion of scientific knowledge. Though they remained uneasy about specialization and the potential emergence of two or more cultures, they no longer had any reason to defer to classical learning, still the mainstay of the most prestigious educational systems.

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