During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity. In examining this period, Iwan Morus moves beyond the conventional focus on the celebrated Michael Faraday to discuss other electrical experimenters, who aspired to spectacular public displays of their discoveries. Revealing connect "A fine book. . . . [It] adds substantially to our understanding not only of the history of electricity but also of a seminal period in the emergence of modern science and technology."-Bruce J. Hunt