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The Pittsburg Electrical Hand-Book; Being A Guide For Visitors From Abroad Attending The International Electrical Congress, St. Louis, Mo., September,

The Pittsburg Electrical Hand-Book; Being A Guide For Visitors From Abroad Attending The International Electrical Congress, St. Louis, Mo., September,

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Technology & EngineeringGeneral World HistoryRegional: West

ISBN10: 9354482422
ISBN13: 9789354482427
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step inside the powerhouse of Gilded Age innovation. Pittsburgh glowed with electric promise. Published for international delegates to the 1904 St Louis exposition and International Electrical Congress, The Pittsburg Electrical Hand-Book is a rare snapshot of a city wired for the future. Part historical technical handbook, part civic portrait, it outlines how early 20th century electricity shaped heavy industry, transport and everyday life, tracing the rise of the Pittsburg (now Pittsburgh) electric power industry and its sprawling networks. Readers see a great American manufacturing centre through the lens of volts, cables and turbines, in a compact electrical engineering history book that doubles as vivid city electric infrastructure history. For electrical historians and for industrial heritage researchers, this volume serves as an indispensable industrial history reference to Gilded Age Pittsburg industry, documenting systems, companies and practices now long vanished. General readers interested in worlds fair 1904 history and the culture of progress surrounding the International Electrical Congress will find a richly atmospheric companion to wider international electrical congress history and urban modernisation. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, The Pittsburg Electrical Hand-Book is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it preserves an authoritative contemporary voice from the dawn of large-scale power, when a single city sought to prove, in meticulous detail, how electricity could drive a new industrial century.

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