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The Electrification of the Home: the Golden Age?

In: Electricity before Nationalisation

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  • Leslie Hannah

    (Emmanuel College)

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At the end of the First World War the use of electricity in the home was almost exclusively for lighting purposes and was confined to the rich: only half a million houses, perhaps 6 per cent of the total, were wired for electricity. Despite four decades of development, there was still enormous unfulfilled potential for expansion of use to new purposes in the more prosperous homes, and for the spread of electric lighting to the homes of the middle classes and the better-off among the working classes. Already by the end of the war there was a considerable backlog of potential demand, for wartime restrictions had held up new connections, and some undertakings had also tried to stifle new demand by insisting on high minimum guaranteed payments for supply in order to avoid further pressure on their already overloaded mains. With the end of restrictions and falling electricity prices, however, the extensions of systems and the connection of new consumers would resume; and even more new houses, and older houses converting from gas, would demand a supply.

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  • Leslie Hannah, 1979. "The Electrification of the Home: the Golden Age?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Electricity before Nationalisation, chapter 6, pages 186-212, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-03443-7_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03443-7_6
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