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100 1  Kirsch, David A.,|d1964- 
245 14 The electric vehicle and the burden of history /|cDavid A.
       Kirsch. 
264  1 New Brunswick, N.J. :|bRutgers University Press,|c[2000] 
264  4 |c©2000 
300    xiii, 291 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and 
       index. 
505 0  Rescuing the alternatives to internal combustion: large 
       technical systems, technological comptetition, and the 
       burden of history -- William C. Whitney, Albert A. Pope, 
       Richard W. Meade, and the Electric Vehicle Company: semi-
       public electric vehicle transportation service, 1897-1912 
       -- Central stations and the electric vehicle industry: 
       organizing to support electric vehicles, 1900-1925 -- The 
       electric truck and the rise and fall of appropriate 
       spheres -- Infrastructure automobile touring, and the 
       dynamics of automotive systems choice -- Excursus: the 
       accidents that never happened -- The burden of history: 
       expectations past and imperfect -- Technological hybrids 
       and the automobile system: from the electrified gas car to
       the electrification of the automobile -- Industrial 
       ecology and the future of the automobile: large-scale 
       technological systems, technological choice, and public 
       policy. 
650  0 Electric automobiles|xHistory. 
650  0 Automobiles|xDesign and construction|xHistory. 
650  0 Automobile industry and trade|zUnited States|xHistory. 
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