The Electrical Manufacturers, 1875–1900 : : A Study in Competition, Entrepreneurship, Technical Change, and Economic Growth / / Harold C. Passer.

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1953
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Studies in Entrepreneurial History ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (412 p.) :; 39 tables, 11 illustrations, 3 line illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES
  • TABLES IN NOTES
  • Diagrams
  • Illustrations
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. Arc Lighting
  • I. The Setting
  • II. The Rise of Leading Firms
  • III. Interfirm Relations
  • IV. The Arc–Carbon Industry
  • V. The Dynamics of the Industry
  • PART II. Incandescent Lighting
  • VI. The Setting
  • VII. The Edison System
  • VIII. Marketing the Edison System
  • IX. The Westinghouse Electric Company
  • X. Interfirm Relations
  • XI. Entrepreneurship
  • XII. The Impact on the Gas Industry
  • XIII. The Dynamics of the Industry
  • PART III. Electric Power
  • XIV. The Setting
  • XV. Electric Traction
  • XVI. The Pioneer Innovators in Electric Traction
  • XVII. The Electric-Railway – Equipment Business
  • XVIII. Alternating Current
  • XIX. The Alternating-Current- Equipment Business
  • XX. Interfirm Relations
  • XXI. The Dynamics of the Industry
  • Conclusion
  • Notes Bibliography Index
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index