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Publisher : Kendall Hunt
ISBN 13 : 9780787229160
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Electricity City written by and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hager
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647000440
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Electric City written by Thomas Hager and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history—Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—and their attempt to create an electric-powered city of tomorrow on the Tennessee River During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society, introducing mass commuting by car, use a new kind of currency called “energy dollars,” and have the added benefit (from Ford and Edison's view) of crippling the growth of socialism. The whole audacious scheme almost came off, with Southerners rallying to support what became known as the Ford Plan. But while some saw it as a way to conjure the future and reinvent the South, others saw it as one of the biggest land swindles of all time. They were all true. Electric City is a rich chronicle of the time and the social backdrop, and offers a fresh look at the lives of the two men who almost saw the project to fruition, the forces that came to oppose them, and what rose in its stead: a new kind of public corporation called the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the greatest achievements of the New Deal. This is a history for a wide audience, including readers interested in American history, technology, politics, and the future.
Author : Harold L. Platt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226670759
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Electric City written by Harold L. Platt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-04-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes consumers' shifting habits of fuel consumption, tracing how use of wood led to burning coal and coal gas, to the arrival, to the arrival of the arc lamp, and then the coming of electricity. Shows that the city government and utility brokers faced two problems: how to generate a cheap supply of electricity, and how to sell electrical energy to people who were already enjoying gas services. The solutions were found by Samuel Insull, president of Commonwealth Edison Company, who put electrical technology on a sound economic footing.
Author : Michael Degani
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ISBN 13 : 9781478016502
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The City Electric written by Michael Degani and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Degani explores how electricity and its piracy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has become a key site for urban Tanzanians to enact, experience, and debate their social contract with the state.
Author : Elizabeth Rosner
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619024063
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Electric City written by Elizabeth Rosner and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upstate New York, at the confluence of the great Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk —from this stunning landscape came the creation of a new world of science. In 1887, Thomas Edison moved his Edison Machine Works here and in 1892, it became the headquarters of a major manufacturing company, giving the town its nickname: Electric City. The peak of Autumn, 1919: The pull of scientific discovery brings Charles Proteus Steimetz, a brilliant mathematician and recent arrival from Ellis Island, to town. His ability to capture lightning in a bottle earns him the title "Wizard of Electric City." Barely four feet tall with a deeply curving spine, Steinmetz's physical deformity belies his great intellect. Allied with his Mohawk friend Joseph Longboat and his adopted eleven–year–old granddaughter Midget, the advancements he makes in Electric City will, quite simply, change the world. The peak of Autumn, 1965: Sophie Levine, the daughter of a company man, one of the many scientists working at The Company, whose electric logo can be seen from everywhere in town. Her family escaped Europe just before World War II, leaving behind a wake of annihilation and persecution. Ensconced in Electric City, Sophie is coming of age just as the town is gasping its last breaths. The town, and America as a whole, is on the cusp of great instability: blackouts, social unrest over Vietnam, and soon the advent of the seventies. Into her orbit drifts Henry Van Curler, the favored son of one of Electric City's founding Dutch families, as well as Martin Longboat, grandson of Joseph Longboat. This new generation of Electric City will face both the history of their town and their own uncertain future, struggling to bridge the gap between the old world and the new. Electric City is a vital, pulsing, epic novel of America, of its great scientific ingenuity and its emotional ambition; one that frames the birth and evolution of its towns against the struggles of its indigenous tribes, the immigrant experience, a country divided, and the technological advancements that ushered in the modern world.
Author : Andres Luque-Ayala
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317143566
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid written by Andres Luque-Ayala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social struggles associated with this change, this book explores the centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a range of global cities, this edited collection establishes an agenda that recognises the uneven, and often historical, geographies of urban electricity networks, prompting attempts to re-wire the infrastructure configurations of cities and predicating protest and resistance from residents and social movements alike. Through a robust theoretical engagement with established work around the politics of urban infrastructures, the book frames the transformation of electricity systems in the context of power and resistance across urban life, drawing links between environmental and social forms of sustainability. Such an agenda can provide both insight and inspiration in seeking to build fairer and more sustainable urban futures that bring electricity infrastructures to the fore of academic and policy attention.
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Statistics of Electric Utilities in the United States. Classes A and B Publicly Owned Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Federal Power Commission
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Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Statistics of Electric Utilities in the United States, 1964, Publicly Owned Systems written by United States. Federal Power Commission and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Statistics of Publicly Owned Electric Utilities in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Federal Power Commission
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Total Pages : 1062 pages
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Download or read book Directory of Electric Utilities in the United States written by United States. Federal Power Commission and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and Military Operations Subcommittee
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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Federal Energy Administration written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and Military Operations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chicago (Ill.). Department of Gas and Electricity
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Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Gas and Electricity of the City of Chicago written by Chicago (Ill.). Department of Gas and Electricity and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Federal Power Commission
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Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book Statistics of Electric Utilities in the United States, 1956, Classes A and B Publicly Owned Companies written by United States. Federal Power Commission and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book Statistics of Electric Utilities in the United States, 1953, Classes A and B Publicly Owned written by United States. Federal Power Commission and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Kirk Blackwelder
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 162349186X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Electric City written by Julia Kirk Blackwelder and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seven decades the General Electric Company maintained its manufacturing and administrative headquarters in Schenectady, New York. Electric City: General Electric in Schenectady explores the history of General Electric in Schenectady from the company’s creation in 1892 to the present. As one of America’s largest and most successful corporations, GE built a culture centered around the social good of technology and the virtues of the people who produced it. At its core, GE culture posited that engineers, scientists, and craftsmen engaged in a team effort to produce technologically advanced material goods that served society and led to corporate profits. Scientists were discoverers, engineers were designers and problem solvers, and craftsmen were artists. Historian Julia Kirk Blackwelder has drawn on company records as well as other archival and secondary sources and personal interviews to produce an engaging and multi-layered history of General Electric’s workplace culture and its planned (and actual) effects on community life. Her research demonstrates how business and community histories intersect, and this nuanced look at race, gender, and class sets a standard for corporate history.
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Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
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Total Pages : 446 pages
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