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Children of light: how electricity changed Britain forever

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Atlantic Books 2011 LondonDescription: xxii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781848872257
  • 9781848871175
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.793 WEI
Summary: "In the early 1870s a night-time view over Britain would have revealed towns lit by the warm glow of gas and oil lamps and a much darker countryside, the only light emanating from the fiery sparks of late running steam trains. However, by the end of this same decade that Victorian Britons would experience a new brilliance in their streets, town halls, and other public places. Electricity had come to town. This book tells the story of how the discovery of electricity changed Britain forever."
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"In the early 1870s a night-time view over Britain would have revealed towns lit by the warm glow of gas and oil lamps and a much darker countryside, the only light emanating from the fiery sparks of late running steam trains. However, by the end of this same decade that Victorian Britons would experience a new brilliance in their streets, town halls, and other public places. Electricity had come to town. This book tells the story of how the discovery of electricity changed Britain forever."

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