The eye of the needle: magnetic survey and the compass of capital in the age of revolution and reform

• Main Author: Bulstrode, Jenny
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cambridge 2019
• Subjects: history of physics; geomagnetism; nineteenth century; Magnetic Crusade; Dip Circle; Admiralty Standard Compass; globalisation; Greenland; Indian; Cornish; The Needle; Barlow
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/308350; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55441

This thesis charts the globalising role of British geomagnetism in the age of revolution and reform. In the earlier decades of the nineteenth century, significant fiscal-military state resources were directed toward linking three momentous magnetic enterprises: Admiralty reform of practical magnetic...