By Reyner Banham
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The kit of parts: heat and light T h e preceding chapter will already have g i v e n some idea o f the kind o f technology o f environment that was b e c o m i n g available during the nineteenth century. T h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f the art needs to b e discussed in s o m e w h a t fuller detail, h o w e v e r , e v e n t h o u g h there is no intention o f p r o v i d i n g a complete technological history within the compass o f the present w o r k . Chiefly, it is i m portant to establish the changes in the t y p e o f environmental power that could be delivered into an inhabited space.
M e d i c a l practitioners, in the course o f their normal rounds a n d as visitors a c c o m p a n y i n g inspectors o f mines a n d factories, h a d unrivalled opportunities for observing the varieties o f e n v i r o n mental disaster the nineteenth century h a d b r e d , and w o u l d b e exposed to conditions that rarely came to the notice o f architects. T h e c o m m o n c o n t e m p t o f medical m e n for the inhibitions o f c o n vention, and their rationalist belief in direct physical action are well e n o u g h k n o w n to leave n o reason to b e surprised that they frequently w e n t b e y o n d m e r e verbal protests at the conditions o f the time.
F o r a start, m u c h o f the necessary electromechanical skill needed to make and operate his system could only come from the reservoir o f trained talent that had accumulated in the telegraph system o f the u s since the 1840's, and in the telephone system since the late 1870's. B u t it was out o f this pool o f talent (including its most talented m e m b e r , E d i s o n himself) that there came the solution o f the p r o b l e m that was s u p posed to make the s u p p l y o f v a r y i n g amounts o f electricity to independently-minded domestic consumers as g o o d as impossible.