[9] March 11 - The expanding scale of electrical networks
Presentation: Pavel T.
Assigned reading:
Charles P. Steinmetz, “The future of electricity” (1900).
Henry Adams, “The dynamo and the virgin,” The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (1918 [1909]), 379–390.
Thomas P. Hughes, “Berlin: The coordination of technology and politics,” Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930 (1983), 175–200.
Suggested reading:
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, “Electrical apotheosis,” Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century (1988 [1983]), 50–78.
Crosby, Children of the Sun, 101-116.Jonathan Coopersmith, The Electrification of Russia (1992).
Roman Sandgruber, "The electrical century: The beginnings of electricity supply in Austria," in R. Porter and M. Teich, eds., Fin de Siècle and its Legacy (1990), 42-53.
Vincent Lagendijk, Electrifying Europe: The Power of Europe in the Construction of Electricity Networks (2008), chapter 3.
G. Krzhizhanovskii, "Zadachi nauchnogo fronta elektrifikatsii," Sotsialisticheskoe stroitel'stvo (1936), 404-411.
James E. Brittain, "The International Diffusion of Electric Power Technology, 1870-1920," Journal of Economic History 34 (1974): 108-30.
Kirchner, Walther, "Siemens and AEG and the Electrification of Russia, 1890-1914," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 30 (1982): 399-428.
A Russian bibliography.
A Polish bibliography, including a brief article on Lwów.
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