Tom Scott
Power, Politics and Pragmatism: The British National Grid
S6 • E11 Feb 15, 2016 3m
Back in the 1920s, electricity was generated by hundreds of small companies in towns and cities across the country. They were all different and mostly incompatible: London alone had 24 voltages and 10 frequencies. How did we get from there to the billion-pound tunnel projects of today?
