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Cities of light and heat : domesticating gas and electricity in urban America
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Cities of light and heat : domesticating gas and electricity in urban America

Author: Mark H Rose
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark H Rose
ISBN: 0271013494 9780271013497
OCLC Number: 30319415
Description: xviii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The urbanization of technology and public policy, 1860-1900 -- The blunt discipline of public policy, 1900-1920 -- Agents of diffusion: salespersons and home service representatives, 1900-1920 -- Preparation of producers and consumers: public schools, 1900-1930 -- Two salespersons and ecologies of technological knowledge, 1920-1940 -- Adapting to the city again, 1920-1940 -- Baptismal tanks and the feminized search for environmental perfection, 1945-1985 -- The scholarship of technology and society, 1915-1990s. Illustrations: Henry L. Doherty -- Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, mid-1890s -- Denver residence, before 1900 -- Denver Gas & Electric Company employees, 1908 -- Denver, 1911 -- "Cook with gas" vehicle, c. 1910 -- Denver Gas New Business Department, 1929 -- "The story of the invisible furnaceman" 1923 -- Space heater sales promotion, 1931 -- J. C. Nichols -- Home built by J. C. Nichols, 1920s -- Kitchen for "Little Magic House" 1939 -- Wolferman's Grocery Store, 1939 -- Kitchen sales promotion, 1940 -- Maytag advertisement, c. 1946 -- Public Service Company of Colorado News item, 1950 -- Maytag advertisement, 1951 -- Kitchen of the 1980s.
Responsibility: Mark H. Rose.
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