884 Pages
by
Routledge
This three-volume collection of primary sources examines electric power in Victorian Britain. The first volume covers the works of those for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. The second volume looks at how electric power imprinted on the political landscape of Great Britain and the Empire. The third volume reviews... Read more
Volume I: Electricity as Energy; Volume II: Electricity as Politics; Volume III: Electricity as a System; Volume IV: Electricity as Future
Biography
Dr. Nathan Kapoor is an Affiliate Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Department History at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. Nathan Kapoor is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century technologies of electrification, with a specialisation in the history of British electrification at home and in its colonies, most especially New Zealand.
