Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  Arthur G. Woolf
Title:  The Residential Adoption of Electricity in Early Twentieth-Century America
Classification-JEL: F0
Pages:  19-30
Volume:  Volume 8
Issue:  Number 2
Year:  1987
Abstract:  The commercial development of electricity in the late nineteenth century brought about a technological revolution comparable to, if not exceeding, the development of the steam engine more than a century earlier. While the steam engine laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution and altered the social, economic, and political framework of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western Europe, the development of electricity had an equally significant impact in a later era.
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