Heroes, Herds and Hysteresis in Technological History: Thomas Edison and ‘The Battle of the Systems’ Reconsidered
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Industrial and Corporate Change
- Vol. 1 (1) , 129-180
- https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/1.1.129
Abstract
The history of this development is worth following—as an example of scientific and technological co-operation, of multiple invention, of progress by an infinitude of small improvements, of creative entrepreneurship, of derived demand and unanticipated consequences. David S. Landes (1969, p. 284) on electric power.Keywords
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