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The Electric Century

How the Taming of Lightning Shaped the Modern World. Popular Science

By (author) J.B. Williams
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland
Published: 10th Jul 2017
Dimensions: w 168mm h 240mm d 13mm
Weight: 4353g
ISBN-10: 3319511548
ISBN-13: 9783319511542
Barcode No: 9783319511542
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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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"Williams is very thorough, and as with the electronics book, he or she is at his or her best when giving us historical statistics and nuggets of information about, for example, the early fragmented electricity generation companies, or Marconi's work or the development of batteries. ... if you'd like to fill in some gaps in the history of technology, it's worth taking on." (Brian Clegg, Popular Science, popsciencebooks.blogspot.com, January, 2018)
"There is a good table of contents, a detailed bibliography, and a good index. This is an interesting treatise on the impact of electricity on our world. Williams' book differs from others on this subject in the diversity of aspects covered and by also considering their social impacts on our society. A very enjoyable book." (David B. Henderson, Computing Reviews, March, 2018)