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PRAXIS BOOKS THE ELECTRIC CENTURY - JB WILLIA...

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 twentieth. Electricity
and the equipment using it are so pervasive that they have affected every corner of modern
life.

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