{"title":"Interpreting the early age of electricity","authors":"G. Pancaldi","doi":"10.1109/HEP.2007.4510268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEP.2007.4510268","url":null,"abstract":"The paper concerns the early age of electricity and addresses the the questions: 1) Why did it take so long for the steady current of the battery to transform our civilization? and, 2) What else was needed, beyond the current of the battery, for the age of electricity finally to take off?","PeriodicalId":202728,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Conference on the History of Electric Power","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128271966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent trends in French historiography on electricity","authors":"S. Saul","doi":"10.1109/HEP.2007.4510270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEP.2007.4510270","url":null,"abstract":"Beginning practically from scratch about a quarter century ago, a vast storehouse of knowledge has been collected on the history of electricity in France and elsewhere. Caron described the publications by the AHEF as a sort of database. We know a lot more about production and consumption, about companies and people active in the electrical sector, about economic results and social effects, about the legal framework and the political context, about the cultural and artistic aspects of the novelty that was electricity. A large number of historians and graduate students have worked on many fronts. None can be said to have been neglected. That was the predominant trend. Recent historiography tried to embrace all of the history of electricity. To a large extent, it succeeded. What remains to be done ? Three suggestions can be advanced. First, more attention has to be paid to the very recent history of electrification. As time passes and EDF archives become available, more work based on sources will be done on the immediate past. Second, the international dimension has to be strengthened, in two respects. On the one hand, comparisons between France and other countries need to be encouraged. On the other, connections between national electrical systems remain hazy and require clarification and understanding. Third, greater use has to be made of the interdisciplinary approach, electricity being a subject at the crossroads, at the very least, of science, technology, economics, politics, sociology, literature, art and, of course, history.","PeriodicalId":202728,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Conference on the History of Electric Power","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116254305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harnessing the earth: Nikola tesla and the idea of broadcasting electric power, 1890–1905","authors":"W. Carlson","doi":"10.1109/HEP.2007.4510256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEP.2007.4510256","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the history on the work of Nikola Tesla to transmit electric power from one point to another through electromagnetic waves.","PeriodicalId":202728,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Conference on the History of Electric Power","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126016804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Swedish development of turbogenerators with directly water-cooled rotors","authors":"S. Eriksson","doi":"10.1109/HEP.2007.4510258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEP.2007.4510258","url":null,"abstract":"Large steam turbine-driven generators rated at a few hundred MW and higher constitute, in many respects, a big engineering challenge. The Swedish manufacturer of heavy electrical equipment, Asea was faced with this challenge in the late sixties, when the company started to develop such generators for nuclear power plants. Due to the company's background, it was necessary to choose new design concepts, and Asea decided on a very unique concept, turbogenerators with directly water-cooled rotors. The development led to difficult teething problems before the generators could be delivered and operate satisfactory; a process, which took around a decade to complete. Since then, the operation records have been very good. These turbogenerators constitute the only existing group with a significant number of two-pole, directly water-cooled rotors. The background, the development and results are summarized in this paper.","PeriodicalId":202728,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Conference on the History of Electric Power","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132907632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forgotten roots","authors":"J. Casazza","doi":"10.1109/hep.2007.4510257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/hep.2007.4510257","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the history of electric power during the 1885-1965 period that is remembered by very few. It was a period in which coordination and cooperation between companies and among the engineers involved led to great progress.","PeriodicalId":202728,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Conference on the History of Electric Power","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128011398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carrier-wave telephony over power lines- early history","authors":"M. Schwartz","doi":"10.1109/MCOM.2009.4752669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2009.4752669","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we focus on the early history of using power lines for voice communications, beginning in 1918 and carrying the story forward to the early 1930s, when telephony using power lines had essentially established itself as a mature technology worldwide.","PeriodicalId":202728,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Conference on the History of Electric Power","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117201209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fuel cell research and development and the pursuit of the technological panacea, 1940–2005","authors":"W. Ostwald","doi":"10.1109/hep.2007.4510265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/hep.2007.4510265","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that dreams for a commercial fuel cell have gone consistently unrealized largely because expectations have consistently outpaced the knowledge base. Researchers and their supporters perceived the fuel cell as a hybrid of the conventional galvanic battery and the internal combustion engine, combining the advantages of both without their handicaps. In conventional storage batteries, the electrodes are also the \"fuel\", and are gradually consumed over time. In contrast, fuel cells use chemical reactants that are stored externally, not within the battery casing itself. Researchers assumed that as long as fuel was supplied, fuel cell electrodes and electrolyte would continue to operate with no chemical deterioration, a state known as \"invariance\".","PeriodicalId":202728,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE Conference on the History of Electric Power","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128225636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}