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Engineering invention : Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. electrical industry / Frederick Dalzell ; foreword by W. Bernard Carlson ; afterword by John Sprague.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dalzell, Frederick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inventors--United States--Biography.
- Inventors.
- Electrical engineers--United States--Biography.
- Electrical engineers.
- Electric utilities--United States--History--20th century.
- Electric utilities.
- Sprague, Frank J. (Frank Julian), 1857-1934.
- Sprague, Frank J.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over the course of less than 20 years, inventor Frank J Sprague (1857-1934) achieved an astonishing series of breakthroughs. Frederick Dalzell tells Sprague's story, setting it against the backdrop of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of technology.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Motive Powers and Mechanisms; 2 Getting Traction, 1884 to 1888; 3 Assessing Richmond; 4 Restless and Rising; 5 Fighting for Control; 6 Elusive Control; 7 Mainline Electrification; Afterword; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-25812-9
- 1-282-69440-5
- 9786612694400
- 0-262-25870-6
- OCLC:
- 477856329
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612694400
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