Nineteenth Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources Documents Electric Power in Victorian Britain

This volume of sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how people and electrical engineers imagined electric power networks impacting the present and future. This volume of primary sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures or "grids" as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how citizens, novelists, doctors, politicians, and electrical engineers imagined electric power networks impacting the present and future.

Pages: 254, Edition: 1, Hardcover, Routledge