Bibliography of Electricity Industry history and Heritage materials Bibliography of Electricity Industry history and heritage materials Compiled by Mr MacLaren North, Heritage Consultant ([email protected]) for EnergyAustralia January 2007. Reproduced here with express permission of EnergyAustralia and acknowledgment of the moral rights of EnergyAustralia. Introduction This bibliography represents a list of materials relating to the history and heritage of the electricity industry. It is primarily material related to New South Wales (NSW) and Australia, with a small number of New Zealand, UK and USA references. General references on the history of electricity are not included. Materials identified in this bibliography are available through institutional libraries and have primarily been identified in the collection of EnergyAustralia and the State Library of NSW. To search for any of these items across Australia, refer to the Libraries Australia website: http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/ The key texts used for EnergyAustralia’s history are: • Anderson, Gordon F (1955) Fifty years of Electricity Supply: The story of Sydney’s Electricity Undertaking. Sydney: The Sydney County Council. • Armstrong, Peter J (2002) From council to corporation: the history of Newcastle's electricity supply. Newcastle: Newcastle Electricity Supply Council Administration / Orion Energy. • Wilkenfeld, George and Peter Spearritt (2004) Electrifying Sydney. Sydney: EnergyAustralia. Books and articles Allbut, Guy (1958) A brief history of some of the features of public electricity supply in Australia and the formation and development of Electricity Supply Association of Australia, 1918-1957. Melbourne: Electricity Supply Association, of Australia. Andersen, Graeme F. (1992) Electricity supply in Doncaster and Templestowe: a history of the Electricity Department of the City of Doncaster and Templestowe. Doncaster, Vic.: City of Doncaster and Templestowe. Anderson, Gordon F (1955) Fifty years of Electricity Supply: The story of Sydney’s Electricity Undertaking. Sydney: The Sydney County Council. Andrews, H. H. (1951) Electricity in transport: over sixty years' experience, 1883-1950. Siemens Bros. & Co. Limited, Dick, Kerr & Company Limited, the English Electric Company Limited. London: English Electric Co., 1951. Armstrong, Peter J (2002) From council to corporation: the history of Newcastle's electricity supply. Newcastle: Newcastle Electricity Supply Council Administration / Orion Energy. Association for Electrical Development. (1936) A policy for electrical development / submitted by the Association for Electrical Development. Lindfield, N.S.W.: The Association. Baker, V. H. (1973) The supply of electricity in North Otago: featuring a short history of Waitaki Electric- power Board, 1923-1973. [Oamaru, N.Z.]: Waitaki Electric-power Board. Babb, J and Richard Harrison (1996) “The private history of public utilities”. IPA Review Vol 48 (4): 52-55. Complied by MacLaren North, Heritage Consultant ([email protected]) 1 For EnergyAustralia Version 1.6 January 2007 Bibliography of Electricity Industry history and Heritage materials Beder, S. (2003) Power Play: the fight for control of the world’s electricity. Melbourne: Scribe. Boylen, Louise and McIlwraith, John (1994) Power for the People. A history of gas and electricity in Western Australia. Perth: State Energy Commission of Western Australia. Booth, Robert R (2000) Warring tribes: the story of power development in Australia. West Perth, W.A.: Bardak Group. Brown, D. Clayton (1980) Electricity for Rural America: The Fight for the R.E.A. Greenwood Press. Byatt, I. C. R (1979) The British electrical industry, 1875-1914: the economic returns to a new technology. Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press. Byers, Anthony (1981) The Willing Servants: a History of Electricity in the Home. London: The Electricity Council. Cabramatta and Canley Vale Council (1941) Cabramatta Canley Vale municipality, 1892-1941. Parramatta: Cabramatta and Canley Vale Council. Calzonetti, Frank J. (1989) Power From the Appalachians: a Solution to the Northeast's Electricity Problems? Greenwood Press. Culy, John, E.G. Read and B.D. Wright (1995) The evolution of New Zealand's electricity supply structure. Wellington, N.Z.: NZ Institute of Economic Research. Donovan, P. F. (1999) Lights! Water! - ACTEW!: a history of ACTEW and its predecessors. Canberra: ACTEW Corporation. Doran, Christine (1990) Partner in progress: a history of electricity supply in North Queensland from 1897 to 1987. Townsville, Qld.: Dept. of History and Politics, James Cook University. Douglas, Dallas. (1990) A brief history of electricity in Barcaldine: commemorating 75 years of generation and supply. Rockhampton, Qld.: Capricornia Electricity. Doyle, Peter (1991) “The sociosemiotics of electricity substations. Discussion of substation façades in terms of interpersonal and textual functions”. Social Semiotics. Volume 1(1): 81-98. Dunn, Col (1985) The history of electricity in Queensland: an outline of the history of electricity and its progress in Queensland 1882-1984. Bundaberg, Qld.: C. Dunn. Edwards, Cecil (1969) Brown Power - A Jubilee History of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria. Melbourne: State Electricity Commission of Victoria. Electricity Authority of NSW (1954) Organisation of Electricity Distribution in the County of Cumberland: Electricity Authority of NSW. Electricity Commission of New South Wales (1975) Electricity supply in New South Wales: twenty five years of progress, 1950-1975. Sydney. Electricity Commission of New South Wales (1960) The development of electricity supply in New South Wales: an outline for students. Sydney: The Commission. Energy Supply Association of Australia Ltd (2005) Electricity Gas Australia 2005 CD ROM Version. Melbourne: The Association. Electricity Trust of South Australia (1983) The Leigh Creek coalfield 1888-1982. Eastwood, S. Aust.: The Trust. Electrical Trades Union (2003) 100 Years of Lighting the Way, Sydney: Electrical Trades Union. Complied by MacLaren North, Heritage Consultant ([email protected]) 2 For EnergyAustralia Version 1.6 January 2007 Bibliography of Electricity Industry history and Heritage materials Fetscher, Mark (2001) The power makers: the history of the Central Coast and Hunter Valley power generating stations. Charlestown, N.S.W. Fetscher, Mark (2003) The power stations of the N.S.W.G.R. Charlestown, N.S.W. Fetscher, Mark (2004) The power stations of the Sydney County Council. Charlestown, N.S.W. Gill, Herman (1949) Three decades: the story of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria from its inception to December 1948. Melbourne: Hutchinson, 1949. Hannah, Leslie (1979) Electricity before nationalisation: a study of the development of the electricity supply industry in Britain to 1948. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Hannah, Leslie (1982) Engineers, Managers, and Politicians: The First Fifteen Years of Nationalized Electricity Supply in Britain. Johns Hopkins Univ Pr. Harvey, Colin (1993) Yallourn Power Station: a history, 1919 to 1989 [Melbourne]: State Electricity Commission of Victoria. Hermann, A. E. (2002) Development of Rockhampton and district. [Rockhampton]: Central Queensland Family History Association. Hinton of Bankside, Lord (1979) Heavy Current Electricity In The United Kingdom: History And Development. Pergamon Press. Hughes, Thomas. P (1983) Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press John Fairfax Ltd. (2004) “100 years of electricity, 1904-2004: Sydney lights up: a centenary of power”. Supplement issued with the Sydney Morning Herald, July 8, 2004. Larcombe, F. A. (1978) The advancement of Local Government in New South Wales 1906 to the Present (A History of Local Government in New South Wales Vol 3). Sydney: Sydney University Press in association with the Local Government and Shires Association of NSW. Linn, Rob (1996) ETSA: The story of electricity in South Australia. Adelaide, S. Aust.: Historical Consultants for ETSA. Lobsey, Ian R (1988) City of light: a history of the Tamworth Electricity Undertaking and Peel-Cunningham County Council 1888-1988. Tamworth [N.S.W.]: Peel-Cunningham County Council. Low, Robert A. (2004) Switched on in the Hunter: a history of electricity supply to Newcastle and the Hunter Valley 1889-1996. Newcastle, N.S.W.: Energy Australia. Low, R. A. (1990?) Switched on in the west: a history of electricity supply to Parramatta and the western region of Sydney 1890 to 1990 [Parramatta, N.S.W.]: Parramatta and District Historical Society Lupton, Roger (1999?) Lifeblood: Tasmania's hydro power. Edgecliff, N.S.W.: Focus Publishing. Maguire, F. (1966) ‘Instability in the Development of the Electricity Supply Industry in New South Wales’ Australian Quarterly Vol. 38 (March 1966). Manning, Maurice & Moore Mcdowell (1985) Electricity Supply in Ireland: The History of the ESB. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. Martin, John E (ed) (1991) People, politics and power stations: electric power generation in New Zealand, 1880-1990. Wellington, N.Z.: Bridget Williams Books and Electricity Corporation of New Zealand. McNichol, Tom (2006) AC/DC: the savage tale of the first standards war. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Complied by MacLaren North, Heritage Consultant ([email protected]) 3 For EnergyAustralia Version 1.6 January 2007 Bibliography of Electricity Industry history and Heritage materials Mill, Alec (1979) History of the electrical