MARC details
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03495cam a2200349Ii 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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on1002304945 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20181217002200.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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170831s2018 sz a b 001 0 eng d |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2017941080 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
PNX |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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PNX |
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IQU |
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NZLPP |
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OCLCF |
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GO3 |
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GYG |
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FBR |
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JYJ |
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NFG |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9783319511542 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
3319511548 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN |
9783319511559 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1002304945 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
537.09 |
| Item number |
W724 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Williams, J.B. |
| Titles and other words associated with a name |
(Engineer), |
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author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
380704 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The electric century : |
| Remainder of title |
how the taming of lightning shaped the modern world / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
J.B. Williams. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cham, Switzerland : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Springer ; |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Chichester, UK : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
published in association with Praxis Publishing, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2018] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 216 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Springer-Praxis books in popular science |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-211) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction -- Chaotic beginnings -- Lighting that doesn't need lighting -- Streetcars, subways, trains and suburbs -- First you have to make it: The spread of the electricity supply -- Beginnings of mass production: Electric power in industry -- Early mass media: Newspapers and cinema -- The catless miaow: Wireless telegraphy -- Healthy? Early medical electricity -- Portable power: Batteries -- A good investment: Electricity grids -- Willing servants: The growth of appliances in the 1930s -- Blackout: War and crisis in electric power generation -- Give someone a bell: Telephones -- Horseless carriages: Road vehicles -- Too cheap to meter? Nuclear power and beyond -- Keeping it fresh: Fridges and freezers -- Banishing washday: Home laundry -- Going up... or down: Elevators and escalators -- Gadgets: Small household appliances -- Freedom of the house: Central heating and air conditioning -- Power tools and the DIY revolution -- The electric century. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
This book is about how electricity has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and play. Some twenty topics are covered, with an abundance of graphs and images to build a comprehensive picture. Each looks at the developments, and the people who initiated them, together with how one led to the next and their subsequent impact on society. Topics include electric supply, lighting through X-rays, and all those appliances that make our homes so comfortable.Most homes at the end of the twentieth century were full of electrical equipment, much of which was regarded as essential. It ran from lights, washing machines, fridges, freezers, kettles, telephones and so on, to the more subtle things such as wipers and starter motors on cars. In 1900, in all but a tiny minority of houses, there were none of these things. It is very difficult for us now to imagine a world without electrical equipment everywhere, and yet it has only taken a century. The Electric Century examines how we got from then to now. The nineteenth is often described as the century of steam from the impact it had on employment and transport, and The Electric Century makes a similar claim as the description of the twentieth. Electricity and the equipment using it are so pervasive that they have affected every corner of modern life. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Electricity |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
380705 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Springer-Praxis books in popular science. |
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380706 |
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