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        When the Lights Went Out

        When the Lights Went Out

        When the Lights Went Out

        A History of Blackouts in America

        by David E. Nye

        ISBN: 9780262525077

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 13, 2013

        Blackouts—whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism—offer snapshots of electricity's increasingly central role in American society.
        Engineering Invention

        Engineering Invention

        Engineering Invention

        Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry

        by Frederick Dalzell

        Foreword by W. Bernard Carlson

        Afterword by John Sprague

        ISBN: 9780262042567

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 25, 2009

        The technological breakthroughs and entrepreneurial adventures of Frank J. Sprague during the transformative years of the early electrical industry.
        Communications Under the Seas

        Communications Under the Seas

        Communications Under the Seas

        The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications

        Edited by Bernard Finn and Daqing Yang

        ISBN: 9780262012867

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 19, 2009

        The technology of undersea communications, from stranded-wire telegraph cables in the 1850s to fiber-optic cables at the end of the twentieth century, and its social, political, and economic impact.
        A History of Electricity and Magnetism

        A History of Electricity and Magnetism

        A History of Electricity and Magnetism

        by Herbert W. Meyer

        Foreword by Bern Dibner

        ISBN: 9780262130707

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 15, 1971

        Written so as to be understood by the nontechnical reader who is curious about the origin of all the electrical and electromagnetic devices that surround him, this history also provides a convenient...
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