Electricity became the engine of much commerce and industrial development at the turn of the twentieth centry—none more lucrative than the war effort. How could households continue to play a role in this landscape? By 1926, 96% of American homes would be electrified, 1 while European homes had to wait for post-war recovery.
The first decades of the twentieth century were key not just in making electricity an agent of improved health but also in turning the home into an extension of what was happening elsewhere in the city, at work in the factory, and eventually at ...
