Smil’s Brief List of the Pioneering Creators of Electric Systems
October 5, 2011
Michael Giberson In the process of explaining why Steve Jobs, though talented, is no Thomas Edison, Vaclav Smil name-drops a “brief list of the pioneering creators of electric systems”: This fundamental innovation [the electric power system] was created during a remarkably short period of time—most of it between the late 1870s and the beginning of … More Smil’s Brief List of the Pioneering Creators of Electric Systems