ACLS Humanities E-Book: Networks of power: electrification in Western society, 1880-1930

Networks of power: electrification in Western society, 1880-1930

Hughes, Thomas Parke.

Year: 1983

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Frontmatter

I Introduction

II Edison the Hedgehog: INvention and Development

III Edison's System Abroad: Technology Transfer

IV reverse Salients and Critical Problems

V Conflict and Resolution

VI Technological Momentum

VII Berlin: The Coordination of Technology and Politics

VIII Chicago: The Dominance of Technology

IX London: The Primacy of Politics

X California White Coal

XI War and Acquired Characteristics

XII Planned Systems

XIII The Culture of Regional Systems

XIV RWE, PP&L, and NESCO: The Style of Evolving Systems

XV Epilogue

Index

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Title:

Networks of power : electrification in Western society, 1880-1930 Thomas P. Hughes.

Author:

Hughes, Thomas Parke

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Networks of power : electrification in Western society, 1880-1930 Thomas P. Hughes.
Hughes, Thomas Parke
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983

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Subject Headings:

• Electric power systems -- United States -- History
• Electric power systems -- Great Britain -- History
• Electric power systems -- Germany -- History

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