The electric vehicle and the burden of history, David A. Kirsch
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Label
The electric vehicle and the burden of history, David A. Kirsch
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The electric vehicle and the burden of history
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
42780651
Responsibility statement
David A. Kirsch
Table Of Contents
Rescuing the alternatives to internal combustion: large technical systems, technological comptetition, and the burden of history -- William C. Whitney, Albert A. Pope, Richard W. Meade, and the Electric Vehicle Company: semi-public electric vehicle transportation service, 1897-1912 -- Central stations and the electric vehicle industry: organizing to support electric vehicles, 1900-1925 -- The electric truck and the rise and fall of appropriate spheres -- Infrastructure automobile touring, and the dynamics of automotive systems choice -- Excursus: the accidents that never happened -- The burden of history: expectations past and imperfect -- Technological hybrids and the automobile system: from the electrified gas car to the electrification of the automobile -- Industrial ecology and the future of the automobile: large-scale technological systems, technological choice, and public policy