1. BLUEPRINTING a Revolution.
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INDUSTRIAL revolution , *RURAL electrification , *ELECTRICITY in agriculture , *ECONOMIC development , *CITIES & towns , *ECONOMIC policy - Abstract
The article reports on government programs aimed at bringing the industrial revolution into the rural areas of the U.S. Rural electrification in its broader aspect is merely an extension into the countryside of an industrial revolution set afoot when the diffusion of electric energy to small towns began to reverse the centralizing economic trends of the steam-driven factory and the railroad.
- Published
- 1931