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Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification
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The untold story of the power industry's efforts to electrify growing numbers of farms in the years before the creation of Depression-era government programs.
Winner of the 2025 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History
Even after decades of retelling, the story of rural electrification in the United States remains dramatic and affecting. As textbooks and popular histories inform us, farmers obtained electric service only because a compassionate federal government establ...