Dawn of the Electronic Age —— Electrical Technologies in the Shaping of the Modern World, 1914 to 1945

----- 电气时代的曙光：现代世界形成中的电气技术 1914-1945

ISBN: 9780470260654 出版年：2009 页码：550 Frederik Nebeker Wiley

Electrical power is supplied to virtually every home and workplace in our industrialized world. Providing a much-needed comprehensive overview of electrical and electronics history, Dawn of the Electric Age takes an international perspective within a chronological framework. The book explains how our engineering knowledge and its main applications developed in their scientific, economic, and social contexts, and describes how these contexts were profoundly affected by electrical technologies. Though a scholarly study, the book is written in an entertaining style for the general public as well as engineering professionals.