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Engineering Invention: Frank J. Sprague Hardback Book By Frederick Dalzell GC
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- ISBN
- 9780262042567
- Subject Area
- Electrical Engineering
- Publication Name
- Engineering Invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry
- Publisher
- MIT Press LTD
- Subject
- Engineering & Technology, Physics
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
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- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
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- Item Width
- 137mm
- Item Weight
- 476g
- Number of Pages
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The technological breakthroughs and entrepreneurial adventures of Frank J. Sprague during the transformative years of the early electrical industry. Over the course of a little less than twenty years, inventor Frank J. Sprague (1857-1934) achieved an astonishing series of technological breakthroughs-from pioneering work in self-governing motors to developing the first full-scale operational electric railway system-all while commercializing his inventions and promoting them (and himself as their inventor) to financial backers and the public. In Engineering Invention, Frederick Dalzell tells Sprague's story, setting it against the backdrop of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of technology. In a burst of innovation during these years, Sprague and his contemporaries-Thomas Edison, Nicolas Tesla, Elmer Sperry, George Westinghouse, and others-transformed the technologies of electricity and reshaped modern life. After working briefly for Edison, Sprague started the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company; designed and built an electric railroad system for Richmond, Virginia; sold his company to Edison and went into the field of electric elevators; almost accidentally discovered a multiple-control system that could equip electric train systems for mass transit; started a third company to commercialize this; then sold this company to Edison and retired (temporarily). Throughout his career, Dalzell tells us, Sprague framed technology as invention, cast himself as hero, and staged his technologies as dramas. He toiled against the odds, scraped together resources to found companies, bet those companies on technical feats-and pulled it off, multiple times. The idea of the heroic inventor is not, of course, the only way to frame the history of technology. Nevertheless, as Dalzell shows, Sprague, Edison, and others crafted the role consciously and actively, using it to generate vital impetus behind the process of innovation.
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MIT Press LTD
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9780262042567
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Electrical Engineering
Publication Name
Engineering Invention: Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Physics
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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Item Height
203mm
Item Width
137mm
Item Weight
476g
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The Mit Press
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
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