Making Meaning and Value for Edison’s Light and Power in the Human World by Charles Bazerman, UC Santa Barbara
Incandescent light is more than a light bulb. It requires complex systems of related technologies—switches, circuit breakers, meters, and power lines; transformers, power stations, and generators.  It also requires multiple systems of human cooperation, action and meaning-power companies, government regulators, consumers, manufacturers of equipment, bill collectors, accountants, rate payers, electric sign designers and people reading by […]