The Electric City

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The Electric City is written by Harold L. Platt and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226670759 (ISBN 10) and 9780226670751 (ISBN 13).

Describes consumers' shifting habits of fuel consumption, tracing how use of wood led to burning coal and coal gas, to the arrival, to the arrival of the arc lamp, and then the coming of electricity. Shows that the city government and utility brokers faced two problems: how to generate a cheap supply of electricity, and how to sell electrical energy to people who were already enjoying gas services. The solutions were found by Samuel Insull, president of Commonwealth Edison Company, who put electrical technology on a sound economic footing.