Dans les pays développés, l’électrification des foyers a été une étape de la modernisation, aboutissant dès le début des années 1930 à une…
Between 1939 and 1944, the City of Reykjavík in Iceland built a geothermal district heating utility that enabled the inhabitants to transition…
The energizing of Danish homes after World War II introduced a new heating culture, which paved the way for new lifestyles. Modernist architects…
By the 1870s the gas industry had no competitors for lighting, turning it into a near monopoly. However, by the 1880s the possibility of using…
L’accès à des services énergétiques propres et abordables est une préoccupation mondiale, comme le stipulent les conventions internationales. Au…
L’électrification des foyers à Los Angeles ouvre une fenêtre pour l’étude du changement des contours de la masculinité entre 1900 et 1930. En…
At the same time that urban American hearths and kitchens became dependent upon coal, proscriptive accounts of gendered domesticity grew in…
Traditional energy histories have treated electrification as an inevitability: the assumption has been that making cheap energy supply readily…
This paper examines the linked concepts of flexibility and control, focusing on how these are enacted in the operation of control rooms in…
