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Autore: |
Schiffer Michael B
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Titolo: |
Power struggles : scientific authority and the creation of practical electricity before Edison / / Michael Brian Schiffer
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
Disciplina: | 621.30973 |
Soggetto topico: | Electrical engineering - United States - History |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-414) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Studying Technological Change -- 2 Technological Transitions -- 3 Electromagnetism Revealed -- 4 An American Physicist -- 5 Telegraphic Visions -- 6 Mechanical Electricity -- 7 The Blacksmith's Motor -- 8 The Chemistry Connection -- 9 A Peculiar Calling -- 10 Hard Times -- 11 It's a Blast -- 12 "What Hath God Wrought!" -- 13 Magnetic Power Derailed -- 14 Humbug! -- 15 Action at a Distance -- 16 First Light -- 17 If at First You Don't Succeed . . . -- 18 A Thousand Points of Light -- 19 Machine-Age Electricity -- 20 A Beacon of Modernity -- 21 Enter Edison -- 22 New Light -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Laying the foundation for Thomas Edison, the first electric generators were built in the 1830s, the earliest commercial lighting systems before 1860, and the first commercial application of generator-powered light in the early 1860s. This book examines some of these early applications of electricity. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Power struggles ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-262-29299-8 |
0-262-28312-3 | |
1-4356-6290-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824287503321 |
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