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The Electric Age

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Understanding Physics

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Further Reading

  • R.V. Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, In: C.W. Pursell, Jr., ed., Technology in America (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), pp. 105–116.

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  • J.J. Flink, Henry Ford and the Triumph of the Automobile, In: C.W. Pursell., Jr., ed., Technology in America (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), pp. 172–173.

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  • M. Brower, Cool Energy: Renewable Solutions to Environmental Problems (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992).

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  • R. Rhodes and D. Bollen, The Need for Nuclear Power, Foreign Affairs, Jan./Feb. 2000, 30–44.

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(2002). The Electric Age. In: Understanding Physics. Undergraduate Texts In Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21661-4_13

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