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| 260. 瑞士电力 P1 - A seemingly smooth explanation for the rise of Switzerland's electricity supply industry.
 Historians: high level of know-how among engineers and workers, Switzerland's waterpower, the country's financing system.
 However,
 1/ the technology was borrowed from foreign patent holders and the labor-skill was not important
 2/ many countries had waterpower but did not electrify in 19th century
 3/ the capital was from small shareholders
 In fact,
 - The Swiss public was obsessed by electricity.
 - The Switzerland already counted with70+ powerplants before the banks started to consider the investment.
 P2 - Why and How?
 P3 - One explanation: top-down manipulation of small investors by the nation's political and economic elite.
 However,
 => this would imply a previous unification of expectations within the elite.
 Given the banks's reluctance to invest and the federal parliament's lack of interest in establishing a coherent legislation in the 1890's
 => this interpretation is lack of support
 => recent studies' model discloses the existence of competitive interpretations of the electric, each must be connected with the interests of a social group.
 The absence of any opposition untill the 1920's makes the social construction approach just as unhelpful.
 P4 - An alternative explanation proposed by the author:
 1/ the discursive configuration of electrotechnology
 2/ the conditions of tehnological practices which preceeded and accompanied electrotechnology in the late 19th century Switzerland
 3/ interpret the social construction of technology as a process of selection determinded by both social and political forces and the technical utility and cutual significance of electricity in Switzerland.
 
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