Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology by Alexis Madrigal

Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology

Alexis Madrigal

365 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history technology informative slow-paced
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Few today realize that electric cabs dominated Manhattan's streets in the 1890s; that Boise, Idaho, had a geothermal heating system in 1910; or that the first megawatt turbine in the world was built in 1941 by the son of publishing magnate G. P. P...

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