1989 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Historical Research Study on the Technical System of the Electric Power Production and Consumption in Japan.
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63460229
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
科学技術史(含科学社会学・科学技術基礎理論)
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| Research Institution | IBARAKI UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
IHARA Satoshi Professor, College of General Education, IBARAKI UNIVERSITY, 教養部 (70106730)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1988 – 1989
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| Keywords | JAPAN / A HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY / A HISTORY OF THE POWER / ELECTRIC POWER / THE POWER INDUSTRY / AN ELECTRIC COMPANY / ELECTRIC POWER STATION(PLANT) / DENKI-SOUGI |
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| Research Abstract |
[1] I have worked on a history of technical system of the electric power in Japan and collected many historical materials (records, documents and statistical datum). When I arranged these materials, I fed them into the computer as much as possible. And I framed a bibliography and a 'data-base' of this research.
There were about eight hundred or one thousand small-to-mediumsized enterprises of the power at one time in Japan. They had played an important part in a history of the power in Japan.
I have investigated 'Denki-Sougi' . It is meaning that a dispute arose between the power companies and the customers In 1930's. 'Denki-Sougi' had arose out of the technological gaps between the power companies and arbitrary supply of the power for large scale industries.
[2] I have worked on the spot studies moreover. Especially I have been to the hydroelectric power stations in all parts of Japan. There was a rapid introduction of the electric power technology from Europe and American in our country. A modern technology combined with our traditional civil engineering. And it was closely connected with problems of the environmental disruption, damaging the water for irrigation and possibility of damaging the forestry and the fishery.
[3] There was not an electric power policy before the second World War in our country. There was only a business policy of the power company. Accordingly a government of those days only has done what they controlled them. The Japan of today carry on its tradition.
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