The Residential Adoption of Electricity in Early Twentieth-Century America

Arthur G. Woolf

The Energy Journal, 1987, vol. 8, issue 2, 19-30

Abstract: The commercial development of electricity in the late nineteenth century brought about a technological revolution comparable to, if not exceeding, the development of the steam engine more than a century earlier. While the steam engine laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution and altered the social, economic, and political framework of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Western Europe, the development of electricity had an equally significant impact in a later era.

Keywords: Residential electrification; US; Historical analysis; Twentieth century (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol8-No2-2

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