The polities of a new technology : Electricity and the city railway in London and Paris, c.1880-1910
Using electricity in railway operation became a real option towards the end of the nineteenth century. Cities were, generally, the main recipients and instigators of its introduction as the new technology was to help alleviate the often insufficient provision of means of urban transport. Its introdu...
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Métropoles
2009-11-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/metropoles/3920 |