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Author : Graeme Gooday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317314028
A socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. It shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain.
Author : W. Bernard Carlson,Erik M Conway
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031445910
This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods. While much of our understanding of electrification as a historical process is based on the seminal work done by Thomas P. Hughes in Networks of Power (1983), the scholars in this volume expand and revise Hughes’ systems approach to suggest that electrification is a heterogeneous and contingent process. Moreover, the contributors suggest that the conquest of the world by electricity remains incomplete despite more than a century elapsing. Above all, though, this book provides context for thinking about what lies ahead as humans continue their conquest of the earth through electricity. As we become increasingly dependent on electricity to power our lights, heat and cool our homes, turn the wheels of industry, and keep our information systems humming, so we are ever more vulnerable when the grid runs into trouble. Chapter "Surveying the Landscape: The Oil Industry and Alternative Energy in the 1970s" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author : David N. Livingstone,Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226487298
In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity. Chapters from a distinguished range of contributors explore the places of creation, the paths of knowledge transmission and reception, and the import of exchange networks at various scales. Studies range from the inspection of the places of London science, which show how different scientific sites operated different moral and epistemic economies, to the scrutiny of the ways in which the museum space of the Smithsonian Institution and the expansive space of the American West produced science and framed geographical understanding. This volume makes clear that the science of this era varied in its constitution and reputation in relation to place and personnel, in its nature by virtue of its different epistemic practices, in its audiences, and in the ways in which it was put to work.
Author : Mark H. Rose
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0271024828
Cities of Light and Heat takes us to Kansas City and Denver during the late nineteenth century when gas and electricity were introduced to these &"instant cities&" of the west. With rich detail, Mark Rose shows how the new technology spread during the next century from a few streets and businesses within the city limits to countless private homes in the suburbs. In Kansas City and Denver, as in most communities throughout the U.S., business executives, city leaders, and engineers acted as early promoters of the new technology. But by the early 1900s educators, home builders, architects, and salespersons were becoming increasingly important as gas and electric utilities and appliances reached more and more American homes. But these voices for the new technology brought with them their own social attitudes and cultural values. By mid-century, whether in the classroom or in advertisements, Americans were regularly encouraged to fit the new technology within prevailing notions of cleanliness, comfort, convenience, and gender. Although in hindsight the spread of modern technology might seem inevitable to us, Rose shows how even the leaders of the nation's great gas and electric corporations with their vast production and distribution facilities were subject to geography, competing ideologies, urban politics, and even the choices of ordinary consumers. Rose thus locates the driving force behind the diffusion of technology in the neighborhoods, kitchens, and offices of the city. Cities of Light and Heat shows the importance of culture, politics, and urban growth in shaping technological change in the cities of North America.
Author : Mary Fanton Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Art
ISBN : UFL:31262072634404
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:79295002
Author : Jay L. Brigham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023079135
Westerners were at the forefront of the debate over electric power development even before the construction of large, federally owned dams in the 1930s. At the heart of this debate was a conflict between public power advocates and the private utility industry over control of the environment, a struggle that was played out in the political arena. In this book, Jay Brigham describes that rivalry in the West in the years before the New Deal. Focusing on the conservative city of Los Angeles and its liberal counterpart Seattle - as well as on several small towns in the Midwest - Brigham shows how fierce battles broke out as private and public systems competed for customers and how, despite the differences between these two cities, public power ultimately triumphed in each.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Art
ISBN : OSU:32435055090427
Author : J.B. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319511559
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 and their subsequent impact on society. Topics include electric supply, lighting through X-rays, and all those appliances that make our homes so comfortable. Most homes at the end of the twentieth century were full of electrical equipment, much of which was regarded as essential. It ran from lights, washing machines, fridges, freezers, kettles, telephones and so on, to the more subtle things such as wipers and starter motors on cars. In 1900, in all but a tiny minority of houses, there were none of these things. It is very difficult for us now to imagine a world without electrical equipment everywhere, and yet it has only taken a century. The Electric Century examines how we got from then to now. The nineteenth is often described as the century of steam from the impact it had on employment and transport, and The Electric Century makes a similar claim as the description of the twentieth. Electricity and the equipment using it are so pervasive that they have affected every corner of modern life.
Author : Milo Milton Quaife,Joseph Schafer,Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Wisconsin
ISBN : MINN:31951001369233G
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UIUC:30112039427387
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D00208117G
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Wisconsin
ISBN : UVA:X004290336
Author : John D. Buenker
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0870203037
Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy." The period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a widespread clamor for reform arose in reaction to rapid changes in population, technology, work, and society. Wisconsinites responded with action: their advocacy of women's suffrage, labor rights and protections, educational reform, increased social services, and more responsive government led to a veritable flood of reform legislation that established Wisconsin as the most progressive state in the union. As governor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., was the most celebrated of the Progressives, but he was surrounded by a host of pragmatic idealists from politics, government, and the state university. Although the Progressives frequently disagreed over priorities and tactics, their values and core beliefs coalesced around broad-based participatory democracy, the application of scientific expertise to governance, and an active concern for the welfare of all members of society-what came to be known as "the Wisconsin Idea."
Author : David Alec Reeder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0718560833