Diana J. Montaño’s Electrifying Mexico is a cultural and social history of electrification in the Mexican capital between 1880 and 1960.…
Indoor climate gained attention in Switzerland in the late 19th century as a means to preserve human health. In this context, this essay reflects…
We assemble a particularly large dataset of real economy-wide electricity prices (2015 US cents per kilowatt hour) by first consumption-weighting…
Developed in West Germany in the 1960s, the SIEMENS type SUR-100 zero-power reactor was designed both for educational purposes and as a…
From 1960 onward, solar energy developed in a context of innovation and structured scientific policy in Senegal, Mali, and Niger. The crises of…
This essay uses The Smoke of London (2016) as a springboard to engage with four questions of general interest to energy historians. The first…
This article historicizes the rise of the Texas wind industry using the 2010 construction of the Roscoe Wind Farm in West Texas as a case study.…
By connecting two historiographies that, with a few exceptions, have generally ignored one another—gender history and the history of energy—this…
In the advanced countries, the electrification of houses was one step further in the wave of modernization resulting from the sudden arrival of…
