Einstein's generation : the origins of the relativity revolution / Richard Staley.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

x, 494 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-465) and index.

Introduction : Einstein's generation -- Albert Michelson, the velocity of light, and ether drift -- Interferometers and their uses -- Science on display : the World's Fair -- A discipline at work : the international congress of physics -- The empirical electron : space and time on a photographic plate -- Relativity and electron theory, 1905-1911 -- On the histories of relativity -- On the co-creation of classical and modern physics -- The Solvay Council, 1911.