Author : Harold L. Platt
Release : 1991-04-09
Genre : History
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The Electric City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Electric City write by Harold L. Platt. This book was released on 1991-04-09. The Electric City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes consumers' shifting habits of fuel consumption, tracing how use of wood led to burning coal and coal gas, to the arrival, to the arrival of the arc lamp, and then the coming of electricity. Shows that the city government and utility brokers faced two problems: how to generate a cheap supply of electricity, and how to sell electrical energy to people who were already enjoying gas services. The solutions were found by Samuel Insull, president of Commonwealth Edison Company, who put electrical technology on a sound economic footing.