• DocumentCode
    3353063
  • Title

    Interpreting the early age of electricity

  • Author

    Pancaldi, Giuliano

  • Author_Institution
    Bologna Univ., Bologna
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    3-5 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    212
  • Lastpage
    221
  • Abstract
    The paper concerns the early age of electricity and addresses the the questions: 1) Why did it take so long for the steady current of the battery to transform our civilization? and, 2) What else was needed, beyond the current of the battery, for the age of electricity finally to take off?
  • Keywords
    electricity; primary cells; battery; electricity; history; Batteries; Books; Current; History; Large-scale systems; Physics; Sparks; Telegraphy; Telephony; Turning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electric Power, 2007 IEEE Conference on the History of
  • Conference_Location
    Newark, NJ
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1343-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1344-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HEP.2007.4510268
  • Filename
    4510268