Simply electrifying
Subtitle: the technology that transformed the world, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
By: Craig R. Roach
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9781944648268
Subjects: Electricity; Electrical engineering; History; Biography; Inventors
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-394) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Just imagine; title: 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); title: 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; title: 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); title: 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; title: 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); title: Epilogue: Just imagine.