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...
| Κύριος συγγραφέας: | |
|---|---|
| Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: | |
| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Έκδοση: |
Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2018.
|
| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Σειρά: | Popular Science,
|
| Θέματα: | |
| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.
