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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.

Trade Review
An exciting, major contribution to the field of history, for it establishes very convincingly that the growth of... power networks is as intrinsic to and characteristic of modern society as the growth of manorialism was to medieval society. American Historical Review How the West was wired. Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Edison the Hedgehog: Invention and Development
3. Edison's System Abroad: Technology Transfer
4. Reverse Salients and Critical Problems
5. Conflict and Resolution
6. Technological Momentum
7. Berlin: The Coordination of Technology and Politics
8. Chicago: The Dominance of Technology
9. London: The Primary of Politics
10. California White Coal
11. War and Acquired Characteristics
12. Planned Systems
13. The Culture of Regional Systems
14. RWE, PP&L, and NESCO: The

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 April 1993
      ISBN-13 9780801846144
      978-0801846144
      ISBN-10 0801846145
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      Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism Energy, power generation, distribution and storage History of engineering and technology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      An exciting, major contribution to the field of history, for it establishes very convincingly that the growth of... power networks is as intrinsic to and characteristic of modern society as the growth of manorialism was to medieval society. American Historical Review How the West was wired. Times Literary Supplement

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. Introduction
      2. Edison the Hedgehog: Invention and Development
      3. Edison's System Abroad: Technology Transfer
      4. Reverse Salients and Critical Problems
      5. Conflict and Resolution
      6. Technological Momentum
      7. Berlin: The Coordination of Technology and Politics
      8. Chicago: The Dominance of Technology
      9. London: The Primary of Politics
      10. California White Coal
      11. War and Acquired Characteristics
      12. Planned Systems
      13. The Culture of Regional Systems
      14. RWE, PP&L, and NESCO: The

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