The Electric Century How the Taming of Lightning Shaped the Modern World /

This book is about how electricity has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and play. Some twenty topics are covered, with an abundance of graphs and images to build a comprehensive picture. Each looks at the developments, and the people who initiated them, together with how one led to the next...

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Hlavní autor: Williams, J.B (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Popular Science,
Témata:
Technology.
Technology-History.
Electrical engineering.
Energy systems.
Computers.
Communication.
ISBN:9783319511559
ISSN:2626-6113
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Obsah:
  • 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.

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