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The Electric Century - How the Taming of Lightning Shaped the Modern World (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Electric Century - How the Taming of Lightning Shaped the Modern World (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Popular Science
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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.
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