Simply Electrifying
The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2017]
Format: Book
Description: xvii, 462 pages ; 24 cm
Looks at the stories of the researchers, innovators, businesspeople, and regulators who shaped how electricity was understood and used, from early researchers like Benjamin Franklin to contemporary innovators like Elon Musk.
Contents:
Prologue: Just imagine -- Part one: The age of Franklin : a time of awe and discovery. Benjamin Franklin's kite ; James Watt's steam engine ; Faraday's faith (and Maxwell's equations) -- Part two: The age of Edison : let there be light (and power). Samuel Morse's telegraph ; Thomas Edison's light ; George Westinghouse's and Nikola Tesla's alternative ; Samuel Insull's Electric City, Chicago -- Part three: The age of big : big government, big power plants. FDR's New Deal (for electricity) ; Herbert Hoover's dam ; David Lilienthal's Tennessee Valley Authority ; King Coal's reign ; Albert Einstein's equation (E=mc²) -- Part four: The age of harm : crisis, change, and scandal. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace (and war) ; Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ; California's electricity crisis (and Enron's greed) ; Competition's steady rise -- Part five: The age of uncompromising belief. President Obama's Clean Power Plan ; George Mitchell's shale gas revolution ; Elon Musk's vision (and history's lessons) -- Epilogue: Just imagine.
Subjects:
Electricity -- History.
Electrical engineering -- History.
Inventors -- Biography.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Energy.
HISTORY -- Modern.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Digital.
Electrical engineering.
Electricity.
Inventors.
Elektrizität.
Elektrotechnik.
Electricity -- History.
Biographies.
Inventors -- Biography.
Electricity -- History.
Electrical engineering -- History.
Inventors -- Biography.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Energy.
HISTORY -- Modern.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Digital.
Electrical engineering.
Electricity.
Inventors.
Elektrizität.
Elektrotechnik.
Electricity -- History.
Biographies.
Inventors -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781944648268
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TECH Roa | Main (Downtown) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-394) and index.