When the lights went out : a history of blackouts in America /

Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? In California when rolling blackouts hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty million people without electricity? We often remember vividly our time in the d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nye, David E., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Electric power failures > United States > History.
Electrification > United States > History.
Electrification > Social aspects > United States.
Pannes d'électricité > États-Unis > Histoire.
Électrification > États-Unis > Histoire.
Électrification > Aspect social > États-Unis.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > Electrical.
SCIENCE > Physics > Electricity.
Electric power failures
Electrification
Electrification > Social aspects
United States
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
CULTURAL STUDIES/General
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Grid
  • War
  • Accident
  • Crisis
  • Rolling blackouts
  • Terror
  • Greenout?

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