Edison Round Table

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112109595576

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Edison Round Table by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harold L. Platt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226670751

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The Electric City by Harold L. Platt Pdf

Describes consumers' shifting habits of fuel consumption, tracing how use of wood led to burning coal and coal gas, to the arrival, to the arrival of the arc lamp, and then the coming of electricity. Shows that the city government and utility brokers faced two problems: how to generate a cheap supply of electricity, and how to sell electrical energy to people who were already enjoying gas services. The solutions were found by Samuel Insull, president of Commonwealth Edison Company, who put electrical technology on a sound economic footing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112109595485

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Edison Round Table by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118192511

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Edison to Enron by Robert L. Bradley, Jr. Pdf

The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries. It begins with the story of Samuel Insull, a poor boy from England, who started his career as Thomas Edison's right-hand man, then went on his own and became one of America's top industrialists. But when Insull's General Electric's energy empire collapsed during the Great Depression, the hitherto Great Man was denounced and prosecuted and died a pauper. Against that backdrop, the book introduces Ken Lay, a poor boy from Missouri who began his career as an aide to the head of Humble oil, now part of Exxon Mobil. Lay went on to become a Washington bureaucrat and energy regulator and then became the wunderkind of the natural gas industry in the 1980s with Enron. To connect the lives of these two energy giants, Edison to Enron takes the reader through the flamboyant history of the American energy industry, from Texas wildcatters to the great pipeline builders to the Washington wheeler-dealers. From the Reviews... "This scholarly work fills in much missing history about two of America's most important industries, electricity and natural gas." —Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business, University of Houston "... a remarkable book on the political inner workings of the U.S. energy industry." —Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief, POWER Magazine "This is a powerful story, brilliantly told." —Forrest McDonald, Historian

Author : Forrest McDonald
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587982439

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Insull by Forrest McDonald Pdf

This is a reprint of a previosly published work. It dewals with Samuel Insull, who was Thomas Edison's private secretary and founded the business of centralized electric supply. He organized the Edison General Electric Company.

Author : A. J. Millard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Edison National Historic Site (West Orange, N.J.)
ISBN : UOM:39015037783183

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Edison Laboratory: Historical data and furnishing plan by A. J. Millard Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00482728F

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Historic Furnishings Report, Vol. 1: Historical Data and Furnishing Plan, Edison Laboratory, 1995 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Working class
ISBN : PRNC:32101007906579

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Miscellaneous Series by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Consumer price indexes
ISBN : IOWA:31858030513364

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Retail Prices by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Labor
ISBN : HARVARD:LI5G2C

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Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sally A. Kitt Chappell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226101347

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Architecture and Planning of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, 1912-1936 by Sally A. Kitt Chappell Pdf

Fascinated by change, architectural historians of the modernist generation generally filled their studies with accounts of new developments and innovations. In her book, Sally A. Kitt Chappell focuses instead on the subtler but more pervasive change that took place in the mainstream of American architecture in the period. Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, one of the leading American firms of the turn of the century, transformed traditional canons and made creative adaptations of standard forms to solve some of the largest architectural problems of their times—in railroad stations, civic monuments, banks, offices, and department stores. Chappell's study shows how this firm exemplified the changing urban hierarchy of the American city in the early twentieth century. Their work emerges here as both an index and a reflection of the changing urban values of the twentieth century. Interpreting buildings as cultural artifacts as well as architectural monuments, Chappell illuminates broader aspects of American history, such as the role of public-private collaboration in city making, the image of women reflected in the specially created feminine world of the department store, the emergence of the idea of an urban group in the heyday of soaringly individual skyscrapers, and the new importance of electricity in the social order. It is Chappell's contention that what people cherish and preserve says more about them than what they discard in favor of the new. Working from this premise, she considers the values conserved by architects under the pressures of ever changing demands. Her work enlarges the scope of inquiry to include ordinary buildings as well as major monuments, thus offering a view of American architecture of the period at once more intimate and more substantial than any seen until now. Richly illustrated with photographs and plans, this volume also includes handsome details of such first-rate works as the Thirtieth Street Station in Philadelphia, the Cleveland Terminal Group, and the Wrigley Building in Chicago.

Author : Tagi Sagafi-Nejad,Richard W. Moxon,Howard V. Perlmutter
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483153032

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Controlling International Technology Transfer by Tagi Sagafi-Nejad,Richard W. Moxon,Howard V. Perlmutter Pdf

Controlling International Technology Transfer: Issues, Perspectives, and Policy Implications discusses topics that concern technology transfer control. The book assesses related issues and perspectives, as well as examines alternative policy imperatives from different perspectives. The text is comprised of 15 chapters, which are organized into three parts. The first part contains Chapters 1 to 8 that tackle the underlying issues of technology transfer control, such as alternative channel and modes, the impact of new control systems, pricing, taxation, and business practices. The second part contains Chapters 9 to 14, which cover topics concerning policy perspectives and implication, such as control incentives, technology importing/exporting, and control systems. The last part contains Chapter 15, which provides a closing discussion regarding actors, issues, and alternatives. This book will be of great interest to readers who are concerned with the technology transfer systems.

Author : William Carryl Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89015067705

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The Pioneering Corporate Public Relations of Samuel Insull, 1859-1938 by William Carryl Adams Pdf

Author : John A. Riggs
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781635767339

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High Tension by John A. Riggs Pdf

An account of Franklin Roosevelt’s battle against the power industry to bring electricity to rural communities in the United States. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in the depths of the Depression, high tension―or high voltage―power lines had been marching across the country for decades, delivering urban Americans a parade of life-transforming inventions from electric lights and radios to refrigerators and washing machines. But most rural Americans still lived in the punishing pre-electric era, unconnected to the grid, their lives consumed and bodies broken by backbreaking chores. High Tension is the story of FDR’s battle against the “Power Trust,” an elaborate Wall Street-controlled web of holding companies, to electrify all of America―even when the corrupt captains of the industry and their cronies (led by a formidable and honest champion, Wendell Willkie, whose role in the battle propelled him to a presidential bid to unseat Roosevelt in 1940) cried that running lines to rural areas would not be profitable and that in a free market there would simply have to be a divide between the electricity haves and have-nots. Roosevelt knew better. And in this story of shrewd political maneuvering, controversial legislation, New Deal government organizations like the Tennessee Valley Authority, the packing of Federal courts, towering business figures, greedy villains, and the crying needs of farmers and other rural citizens desperate for services critical to their daily lives, John A. Riggs has chronicled democracy’s greatest balancing act of government intervention with private market forces. Here is the tale of how FDR’s efforts brought affordable electricity to all Americans, powered the industrial might that won World War II, and established a model for public-private solutions today in areas such as transportation infrastructure, broadband, and health care. Praise for High Tension “The little known but captivating story of electricity is at the heart of the New Deal. John A. Riggs is the perfect person to tell the tale.” ―Walter Isaacson, author of The Innovators, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs “[A] lucid and compelling tale. This is a fresh angle of vision on one of the most important and under-appreciated stories of the first half of the 20th century.” ―Jonathan Alter, author of The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope “An innovative history of the chaos and conniving that created America’s transformative electricity system. . . . A compelling read. Thoroughly researched and gracefully written. . . . A must for historians, it is also a gripping read for all.” ―Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer “[A]n exhaustive look at President Franklin Roosevelt’s multipronged war against the private utility sector. . . . Riggs dives deep into the legislative, judicial, and public opinion battles over Roosevelt’s energy initiatives, including the Tennessee Valley Authority, and argues that the hybrid public-private system that emerged in America was critical to the nation’s “economic global supremacy” during and after WWII. . . . [T]his authoritative account is a valuable resource for students of America’s energy policy.” ―Publishers Weekly

Author : Kevin Desmond
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781476636184

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Electric Trucks by Kevin Desmond Pdf

Welcomed at end of the 19th century as the solution to the severe problem of horse manure in city streets, electric trucks soon became the norm for short-haul commercial deliveries. Though reliable, they were gradually replaced by gasoline-powered trucks for long-haul deliveries--although a fleet of electric milk trucks survived in Great Britain into the 1960s. Industrial electric vehicles never disappeared from factories and ports. During the past decade, with the availability of the lithium-ion battery, the electric truck is back on the road for all payloads and all distances. The fourth in a series covering the history and future of electric transport, this book chronicles the work of the innovative engineers who perfected e-trucks large and small.