Much (muuuch) more on this in Craig Koslofsky’s ridiculously interesting “Evening’s Empire”: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/evenings-empire/9CB4189A21606

Much (muuuch) more on this in Craig Koslofsky’s ridiculously interesting “Evening’s Empire”: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/evenings-empire/9CB4189A21606DC6E71075BB034573CF https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/evenings-empire/9CB4189... How we turned night into day. And basically a story how technology really went hand in hand with a social revolution.