Power struggles : scientific authority and the creation of practical electricity before Edison / Michael Brian Schiffer.
Laying the foundation for Thomas Edison, the first electric generators were built in the 1830s, the earliest commercial lighting systems before 1860, and the first commercial application of generator-powered light in the early 1860s. This book examines some of these early applications of electricity...
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