Power revolution in the industrialization of Japan, 1885-1940 /
Minami, Ryōshin,
Power revolution in the industrialization of Japan, 1885-1940 / - Tokyo, Japan : New York, NY, U.S.A. : Kinokuniya Co. ; Distributed by New York Kinokuniya Bookstores, c1987. - xvi, 399 p. :ill,
Includes bibliographical references: p. 375-394 and index.
The remarkable industrial growth in pre-World War II Japan was closely associated with changes in the mechanisms that powered the machines of industry: the expansion of the power supply, the mechanization of previously non-powered factories, and the transition from water wheels to steam engines to electric motors. Here, economic historian Ryoshin Minami details this power revolution, analyzing its beginnings and evolution up to 1940.
431400472X :
Electrification
Industries---Power supply
Electric utilities
Japan
HD9685.J32 / M46 1987
333.79'32'0952 / MIN
Power revolution in the industrialization of Japan, 1885-1940 / - Tokyo, Japan : New York, NY, U.S.A. : Kinokuniya Co. ; Distributed by New York Kinokuniya Bookstores, c1987. - xvi, 399 p. :ill,
Includes bibliographical references: p. 375-394 and index.
The remarkable industrial growth in pre-World War II Japan was closely associated with changes in the mechanisms that powered the machines of industry: the expansion of the power supply, the mechanization of previously non-powered factories, and the transition from water wheels to steam engines to electric motors. Here, economic historian Ryoshin Minami details this power revolution, analyzing its beginnings and evolution up to 1940.
431400472X :
Electrification
Industries---Power supply
Electric utilities
Japan
HD9685.J32 / M46 1987
333.79'32'0952 / MIN