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Engineering invention Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry
Over the course of less than 20 years, inventor Frank J Sprague (1857-1934) achieved an astonishing series of breakthroughs. Frederick Dalzell tells Sprague's story, setting it against the backdrop of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of technology.
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Power struggles : Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electric…
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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Circuits, Signals, and Systems
Includes index.These twenty lectures have been developed and refined by Professor Siebert during the more than two decades he has been teaching introductory Signals and Systems courses at MIT. The lectures are designed to pursue a variety of goals in parallel: to familiarize students with the properties of a fundamental set of analytical tools; to show how these tools can be applied to help und…
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 651 pages) :illustrations.
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Papers on digital signal processing
This collection of papers is the result of a desire to make available reprints of articles on digital signal processing for use in a graduate course offered at MIT. The primary objective was to present reprints in an easily accessible form. At the same time, it appeared that this collection might be useful for a wider audience, and consequently it was decided to reproduce the articles (original…
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Modernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure
A comprehensive, coherent strategy for modernizing America's electricity infrastructure while ensuring affordable, reliable, secure, and environmentally sustainable electricity services.America's aging electricity infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly even as the need for highly reliable electric service--driven by the explosion of digital technology--continues to rise. Largely missing from n…
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Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Tria…
An examination of the fierce disputes that arose in Britain in the decades around 1900 concerning patents for electrical power and telecommunications. Late nineteenth-century Britain saw an extraordinary surge in patent disputes over the new technologies of electrical power, lighting, telephony, and radio. These battles played out in the twin tribunals of the courtroom and the press. In Pate…
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Metadyne statics
"The theory, design, and applications of a class of electrical machines, the metadyne, written by the man who first defined these devices and recognized their potentialities."
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Power generation and environmental change :symposium of the Committee on Envi…
Enormous increases in the demand for power throughout the world make it imperative to reduce the environmental hazards and pollution associated with power generation. This book discusses the effects that power generation has had on the land, the water, the air, and the biosphere. It reviews the technological means available for abatement and control of damaging environmental effects and describ…
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Power lines electricity in American life and letters 1882-1952
How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the ori…
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