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Title:
Electricity and Man (Rev.)
Author(s):
Subject Terms:
The World of the Atom Series
Document Type:
BOOK
Publication Date:
1974 Jan 01
Accession Number:
Atom21
Document Number(s):
None
Originating Research Org.:
US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
OpenNet Entry Date:
2014 Jul 15
OpenNet Modified Date:
2014 Jul 15
Description/Abstract:
Our whole industrial civilization depends upon cheap energy streaking out in all directions and under fingertip controls—and that would be very difficult without electric current. It would take enormous ingenuity to find substitutes. If all electricity were shut off, then all electronic devices would be dead. Electric lights would darken. Aluminum would become a rare metal. All factories would have to develop power sources on the spot and would have to switch to primitive, mechanical controls. Every house and every farm would have to give up items we have come to take for granted—not only electric lights, but electric irons, electric toasters, electric water pumps, electric control of furnaces, and so on.