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Heroes, Herds and Hysteresis in Technological History: Thomas Edison and ‘The Battle of the Systems’ Reconsidered

1992; Oxford University Press; Volume: 1; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/icc/1.1.129

1464-3650

Paul A. David,

History of Computing Technologies

The history of this development is worth following—as an example of scientific and technological co-operation, of multiple invention, of progress by an infinitude of small improvements, of creative entrepreneurship, of derived demand and unanticipated consequences. David S. Landes (1969, p. 284) on electric power.