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E.g., this book would have a chapter on electricity and it would gloss over Edison and Westinghouse in order to spend most of its time on Samuel Insull
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I know you know this book already, but maybe The Box is sort of about this? All the pieces were there but there was no uptake until the Vietnam War, and then that kicked off a really pent up cascade
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If you've not read The Shock of the Old you might like it. It's more or less about this, though with more of a focus on maintenance than scaling.
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Teslas main contribution was making alternating current machinery scalable which literally nobody else thought possible. He could not even convince his professors or Edisons underlings to take the idea seriously, only Edison saw any feasability in it.
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