Specifically electrification in London, Berlin, and Chicago. A very researchy deep dive yet broad on history of technology & social contexthttps://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/854545237233905664 …
It's a really good book. 
Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801846145/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_IaU9ybJXVYDTV …
Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801846145/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_IaU9ybJXVYDTV …-
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"The professionals playing a predominant role in [the first phase - system invention and development] are inventor-entrepreneurs, "
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"who differ from ordinary inventors in that the former preside over a process which extends from the inventive idea through development "
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"to the time when the invented system is ready to be used."
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Electricity generated 1880-1940 (Germany) and 1882-1921 (US)pic.twitter.com/BPQLsWukKD
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Hughes wrote a shorter paper in Technology & Culture a few years earlier - I suspect his peers said it was so good he should make it a book
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Thank goodness they did then
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I agree! It's super good - especially the filament story. I keep a copy to share every time the topic comes up:https://www.dropbox.com/s/2sfh7mkg8mcrbxf/TheElectrificationOfAmerica.pdf?dl=0 …
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I loved a similar book "The Industrialization of Light"
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