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Let we listen to Carr’s own words: “In The Big Switch, I draw a parallel to what happened with the invention of electric utilities a hundred years ago. Before the electric utility, people had to generate their own power to run their machines - with waterwheels or steam engines or just their own muscles. But […]

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In 1882 Edison switched on the world’s first large-scale electrical supply network that provided 110 volts direct current to fifty-nine customers in Manhattan; in 1883 in Milan, between Santa Radegonda and Agnello streets, started the production the 1st power station among Continental Europe.
The birth of the first power stations was a crucial junction in the […]

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