ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book considers where processes intersect, and so necessarily draws upon the work of historians of the book, sociologists and historians of science, and literary and cultural critics. Anachronism is inherent in analysis through a discussion of late nineteenth-century electricity. In its first volume, the Review of Reviews maintains an almost obsessive focus on the new technologies that exploited electrical power. Electricity, with its rapid movement through conductors or across space through induction, provides a convenient metaphor for the networks which mobilize and stabilize objects. Gatehouse has little authority with medical or legal discourse, but he does have expertise as an electrician and as an editor. Mary Howarth's short story The Telegram, published in the Pall Mall Magazine in 1896, narrates how objects can disrupt spatial and temporal domains.
