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Networks of power : electrification in Western society, 1880-1930 / Thomas P. Hughes.
LIBRA TK1005 .H83 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Thomas Parke.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electric power systems--United States--History.
- Electric power systems.
- Electric power systems--Great Britain--History.
- Electric power systems--Germany--History.
- History.
- Germany.
- Great Britain.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 474 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Softshell Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0801846145
- 9780801846144
- OCLC:
- 30354380
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