The electric century : how the taming of lightning shaped the modern world / J.B. Williams.
Williams, J.B. (Engineer)
2018
QC507
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Title The electric century : how the taming of lightning shaped the modern world / J.B. Williams.
Author Williams, J.B. (Engineer)
ISBN 9783319511559 (electronic book)
3319511556 (electronic book)
9783319511542
3319511548
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51155-9
Publication Details Cham : Springer, ©2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-51155-9 doi
Call Number QC507
Dewey Decimal Classification 537.09
Summary 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 and their subsequent impact on society. Topics include electric supply, lighting through X-rays, and all those appliances that make our homes so comfortable. Most homes at the end of the twentieth century were full of electrical equipment, much of which was regarded as essential. It ran from lights, washing machines, fridges, freezers, kettles, telephones and so on, to the more subtle things such as wipers and starter motors on cars. In 1900, in all but a tiny minority of houses, there were none of these things. It is very difficult for us now to imagine a world without electrical equipment everywhere, and yet it has only taken a century. The Electric Century< examines how we got from then to now. The nineteenth is often described as the century of steam from the impact it had on employment and transport, and The Electric Century makes a similar claim as the description of the twentieth. Electricity and the equipment using it are so pervasive that they have affected every corner of modern life.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Springer-Praxis books in popular science.
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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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