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¬The¬ Electric Century: How the Taming of Lightning Shaped the Modern World

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Feldname	Details
Vorliegende Sprache	eng
ISBN	978-3-319-51154-2
Name	Williams, J.B.
T I T E L	¬The¬ Electric Century
Zusatz zum Titel	How the Taming of Lightning Shaped the Modern World
Verlagsort	Cham
Verlag	Springer
Erscheinungsjahr	2018
Erscheinungsjahr	2018
Umfang	Online-Ressource (XI, 216 p. 67 illus., 1 illus. in color, online resource)
Reihe	Springer Praxis Books
Titelhinweis	Druckausg.ISBN: 978-3-319-51154-2
Titelhinweis	Printed editionISBN: 978-3-319-51154-2
ISBN	ISBN 978-3-319-51155-9
Klassifikation	PDZ
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Kurzbeschreibung	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
2. Kurzbeschreibung	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
SWB-Titel-Idn	490764231
Signatur	Springer E-Book
Bemerkungen	Elektronischer Volltext - Campuslizenz
Elektronische Adresse	$uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51155-9
Internetseite / Link	Volltext
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