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100	1		_aWilliams, J.B. _eauthor. _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
245	1	4	_a Electric Century _h[electronic resource] : _bHow the Taming of Lightning Shaped the Modern World /
250			_a1st ed. 2018.
264		1	_aCham : _bSpringer International Publishing : _bImprint: Springer, _c2018.
300			_aXI, 216 p. 67 illus., 1 illus. in color. _bCard Paper
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aPopular Science, _x2626-6113
520			_aThis 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.
650		0	_aElectrical Engineering _94623
653			_aPopular Science in Technology.
653			_aEnergy Systems.
653			_aHistory of Computing.
653			_aMedia and Communication.
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776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783319511542
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830		0	_aPopular Science, _x2626-6113
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51155-9 _zClick here to access eBook in Springer Nature platform. (Within Campus only.)
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