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When they hid the fire : a history of electricity and invisible energy in America /
When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Intersections (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. English roots, utopia found and lost
- 2. The energy revolution and the ascendancy of coal
- 3. The conundrum of smoke and visible energy
- 4. Technology and energy in the abstract
- 5. Of fluids, fields, and wizards
- 6. Energy, utopia, and the American mind
- 7. Turbines, coal, and convenience
- Conclusion.