The Questionable Matter of Electricity: The Reception of J.J. Thompson's “Corpuscle” Among Electrical Theorists and Technologists

This chapter contains sections titled: The Electrician and the Question Concerning Electricity, Dissociation and Indifference: Varied Responses to Thompson's 1897 Researches, Converts and Appropriators at the BAAS Meeting of 1899, New Territories and New Audiences for the Electron and Corpuscle, The Autonomy of Hardware—or Not Harnessing the “Electron” in New Technologies, Thompson vs. Thompson: The Contested Relation Between Corpuscles and Electrons, Epilogue: The Invention of Discovery Stories for the “Electron”, Conclusion: A New Uncertainty Principle, Notes