Abstract:More than other energy industries, the electric power industry relied on calculating practices and codifications like load management to handle and develop their technical systems. Scholars have approached these practices largely from the point of view of the history of electricity rather than the broader history of energy. While it is true that these practices facilitated the expansion of the industry, this paper argues that electrical systems and the calculations around them were also used to ‘decipher’ the … Show more
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