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The Residential Adoption of Electricity in Early Twentieth-Century America

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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.

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  • Arthur G. Woolf, 1987. "The Residential Adoption of Electricity in Early Twentieth-Century America," The Energy Journal, , vol. 8(2), pages 19-30, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:enejou:v:8:y:1987:i:2:p:19-30
    DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol8-No2-2
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