Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 4353 g
Reihe: Popular Science
How the Taming of Lightning Shaped the Modern World
Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 4353 g
Reihe: Popular Science
ISBN: 978-3-319-51154-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
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.
Zielgruppe
Popular/general
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Energietechnik & Elektrotechnik
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
- Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
- Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
- Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Elektrotechnik
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein EDV & Informatik: Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
1 Introduction.- 2 Chaotic Beginnings - 3 Lighting that Doesn’t Need Lighting.- 4 Streetcars, Subways, Trains and Suburbs.- 5 First You Have to Make It: The Spread of Electricity Supply.- 6 Beginnings of Mass Production: Electric Power in Industry.- 7 Early Mass Media: Newspapers and Cinema.- 8 The Catless Miaow: Wireless Telegraphy.- 9 Healthy? Early Medical Electricity.- 10 Portable Power: Batteries.- 11 A Good Investment: Electricity Grids.- 12 Willing Servants: The Growth of Appliances in the 1930s.- 13 Blackout: War and Crisis in Electric Power Generation.- 14 Give Someone a Bell - Telephones.- 15. Horseless Carriages: Road Vehicles.- 16 Too Cheap to Meter? Nuclear Power and Beyond.- 17 Keeping it Fresh: Fridges and Freezers.- 18 Banishing Washday: Home Laundry.- 19 Going up. Or Down: Elevators and Escalators.- 20 Gadgets: Small Household Appliances.- 21 Freedom of the House: Central Heating and Air Conditioning.- 22 Power Tools and the DIY Revolution.- 23 The Electric Century.- Acknowledgements.- Endnotes.- Bibliography.- Index.