From Frankenstein to feminism: how electricity powered our imaginations

A new exhibition charts the changing place of electricity in our lives, our homes and in literatureImagine an invisible power. A force that can affect the world at a great distance, cause damage and healing, bring objects to you, show you images of faraway lands, cast light in dark places, even – sometimes – bring the dead back to life. There used to be a name for a force like that; the name was magic. But of course, that flexible, useful, intangible power has now been our servant fo