Switching from the Master to the Mistress: A Women’s Guide to Powering Up the Home
The author explores how the first professional women decorators in Britain helped women gain agency in the home.
The author explores how the first professional women decorators in Britain helped women gain agency in the home.
Sayer looks at candles as an example of how less prominant energy sources and uses play key roles in energy transitions.
Looking to rural Canada, the author shows how women’s concerns for family safety drove energy choices and supplier campaigns.
This edited radio-show transcript provides personal accounts of women’s experiences in rural Ireland during the transition to electricity.
Fabian Zimmer discusses how the perceptions of dam visitors were actively shaped through public open days throughout the twentieth century.
La diga, oltre a essere un’infrastruttura con alto impatto ambientale, è un’infrastruttura con alto potenziale scenografico. Fabian Zimmer passa dal ricordo del proprio stupore infantile a quello dei turisti attratti dai giochi d’acqua messi in scena delle compagnie idroelettriche in Svezia.
Gender colonization, progress, and nature on display as the first electricity from Hoover Dam arrived in Los Angeles in 1936.
This article sheds light on the processes and tactics used by eighteenth-century electricians in making medical electricity a legitimate remedy in the Dutch Republic.
In this Springs article, historian Jane Carruthers explores the history and impact of energy injustice in South Africa.
Examining a case of electric power transmission in California in the early twentieth century, Etienne Benson reveals how industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies often invisible to their users.