| 书目名称 | The Electric Century | | 副标题 | How the Taming of Li | | 编辑 | J.B. Williams | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Shows how the science of electricity, mostly developed in the nineteenth century, was turned into technology in the twentieth century.Looks at the inventors and inventions that gave us so many of the | | 丛书名称 | Springer Praxis Books | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 twe | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | History of electricity; Development of electricity; Energy grid history; Uses of electricity for commun | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51155-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-51154-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-51155-9 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2018 |
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