When they hid the fire : a history of electricity and invisible energy in America / Daniel French.

When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became...

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Main Author: French, Daniel (Historian) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Series:Intersections (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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