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Author : Michael Degani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1478016507
Michael Degani explores how electricity and its piracy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has become a key site for urban Tanzanians to enact, experience, and debate their social contract with the state.
Author : Thomas Hager
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781647000448
The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history—Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—and their attempt to create an electric-powered city of tomorrow on the Tennessee River During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society, introducing mass commuting by car, use a new kind of currency called “energy dollars,” and have the added benefit (from Ford and Edison's view) of crippling the growth of socialism. The whole audacious scheme almost came off, with Southerners rallying to support what became known as the Ford Plan. But while some saw it as a way to conjure the future and reinvent the South, others saw it as one of the biggest land swindles of all time. They were all true. Electric City is a rich chronicle of the time and the social backdrop, and offers a fresh look at the lives of the two men who almost saw the project to fruition, the forces that came to oppose them, and what rose in its stead: a new kind of public corporation called the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the greatest achievements of the New Deal. This is a history for a wide audience, including readers interested in American history, technology, politics, and the future.
Author : Harold L. Platt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226670751
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 : Andres Luque-Ayala,Jonathan Silver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317143567
Providing a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social struggles associated with this change, this book explores the centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a range of global cities, this edited collection establishes an agenda that recognises the uneven, and often historical, geographies of urban electricity networks, prompting attempts to re-wire the infrastructure configurations of cities and predicating protest and resistance from residents and social movements alike. Through a robust theoretical engagement with established work around the politics of urban infrastructures, the book frames the transformation of electricity systems in the context of power and resistance across urban life, drawing links between environmental and social forms of sustainability. Such an agenda can provide both insight and inspiration in seeking to build fairer and more sustainable urban futures that bring electricity infrastructures to the fore of academic and policy attention.
Author : Elizabeth Rosner
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619025820
Upstate New York, at the confluence of the great Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk —from this stunning landscape came the creation of a new world of science. In 1887, Thomas Edison moved his Edison Machine Works here and in 1892, it became the headquarters of a major manufacturing company, giving the town its nickname: Electric City. The peak of Autumn, 1919: The pull of scientific discovery brings Charles Proteus Steimetz, a brilliant mathematician and recent arrival from Ellis Island, to town. His ability to capture lightning in a bottle earns him the title "Wizard of Electric City." Barely four feet tall with a deeply curving spine, Steinmetz's physical deformity belies his great intellect. Allied with his Mohawk friend Joseph Longboat and his adopted eleven–year–old granddaughter Midget, the advancements he makes in Electric City will, quite simply, change the world. The peak of Autumn, 1965: Sophie Levine, the daughter of a company man, one of the many scientists working at The Company, whose electric logo can be seen from everywhere in town. Her family escaped Europe just before World War II, leaving behind a wake of annihilation and persecution. Ensconced in Electric City, Sophie is coming of age just as the town is gasping its last breaths. The town, and America as a whole, is on the cusp of great instability: blackouts, social unrest over Vietnam, and soon the advent of the seventies. Into her orbit drifts Henry Van Curler, the favored son of one of Electric City's founding Dutch families, as well as Martin Longboat, grandson of Joseph Longboat. This new generation of Electric City will face both the history of their town and their own uncertain future, struggling to bridge the gap between the old world and the new. Electric City is a vital, pulsing, epic novel of America, of its great scientific ingenuity and its emotional ambition; one that frames the birth and evolution of its towns against the struggles of its indigenous tribes, the immigrant experience, a country divided, and the technological advancements that ushered in the modern world.
Author : United States. Federal Trade Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044032285959
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electric utilities
ISBN : IND:30000090439856
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electric utilities
ISBN : OSU:32435019492222
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000010558116
Author : United States. Federal Power Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000010557621
Author : Sandy Isenstadt
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262038171
How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture—as a new, uniquely modern kind of building material. Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape; it brought with it new ways of perceiving and experiencing space itself. If modernity can be characterized by rapid, incessant change, and modernism as the creative response to such change, Isenstadt argues, then electricity—instantaneous, malleable, ubiquitous, evanescent—is modernity's medium. Isenstadt shows how the introduction of electric lighting at the end of the nineteenth century created new architectural spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. He constructs an architectural history of these new spaces through five examples, ranging from the tangible miracle of the light switch to the immaterial and borderless gloom of the wartime blackout. He describes what it means when an ordinary person can play God by flipping a switch; when the roving cone of automobile headlights places driver and passenger at the vertex of a luminous cavity; when lighting in factories is seen to enhance productivity; when Times Square became an emblem of illuminated commercial speech; and when the absence of electric light in a blackout produced a new type of space. In this book, the first sustained examination of the spatial effects of electric lighting, Isenstadt reconceives modernism in architecture to account for the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification.
Author : Chris Otter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226640785
During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. How did such enormous changes in the way people saw and were seen affect Victorian culture? To answer that question, Chris Otter mounts an ambitious history of illumination and vision in Britain, drawing on extensive research into everything from the science of perception and lighting technologies to urban design and government administration. He explores how light facilitated such practices as safe transportation and private reading, as well as institutional efforts to collect knowledge. And he contends that, contrary to presumptions that illumination helped create a society controlled by intrusive surveillance, the new radiance often led to greater personal freedom and was integral to the development of modern liberal society. The Victorian Eye’s innovative interdisciplinary approach—and generous illustrations—will captivate a range of readers interested in the history of modern Britain, visual culture, technology, and urbanization.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1897-07
Category : Electric engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015048964368
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electrical engineering
ISBN : PSU:000059887652
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021022277
