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The electric centuryhow the taming of lightning shaped the modern world /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The electric centuryby J.B. Williams.
Reminder of title:	how the taming of lightning shaped the modern world /
Author:	Williams, J.B.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018.
Description:	xi, 216 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	ElectricityHistory.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51155-9
ISBN:	9783319511559$q(electronic bk.)

The electric centuryhow the taming of lightning shaped the modern world /
Williams, J.B.

The electric centuryhow the taming of lightning shaped the modern world /[electronic resource] :by J.B. Williams. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xi, 216 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Springer Praxis books. - Springer Praxis books..

1 Introduction -- 2 Chaotic Beginnings - 3 Lighting that Doesn't Need Lighting -- 4 Streetcars, Subways, Trains and Suburbs -- 5 First You Have to Make It: The Spread of Electricity Supply -- 6 Beginnings of Mass Production: Electric Power in Industry -- 7 Early Mass Media: Newspapers and Cinema -- 8 The Catless Miaow: Wireless Telegraphy -- 9 Healthy? Early Medical Electricity -- 10 Portable Power: Batteries -- 11 A Good Investment: Electricity Grids -- 12 Willing Servants: The Growth of Appliances in the 1930s -- 13 Blackout: War and Crisis in Electric Power Generation -- 14 Give Someone a Bell - Telephones -- 15. Horseless Carriages: Road Vehicles -- 16 Too Cheap to Meter? Nuclear Power and Beyond -- 17 Keeping it Fresh: Fridges and Freezers -- 18 Banishing Washday: Home Laundry -- 19 Going up. Or Down: Elevators and Escalators -- 20 Gadgets: Small Household Appliances -- 21 Freedom of the House: Central Heating and Air Conditioning -- 22 Power Tools and the DIY Revolution -- 23 The Electric Century -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN: 9783319511559$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-51155-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

726747
Electricity
--History.

LC Class. No.: QC507

Dewey Class. No.: 537.09

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