How did they distinguish between the "good" and "bad" technologies?

2. Did Great Depression have anything to do with large companies' stopping the development of technology?

2. How can we prevent external forces from manipulating scientific development?

2)What companies were mainly in charge of Energy Distribution in the 1940s (America), and what the public perceptions of those companies were like back then

Also, he majored math and physics and studied about radar in army. Because the photoelectric effect was known and solar cell study was already proceeding, I think he would easily think about this idea for writing.

"Be practical. You aren't the Atomic Energy Commission.,,

The first "Let there be light" was published in 1940,

But the first AEC is established in 1946.,,,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_antitrust_law

Got Milk campaign (late 2000s)

Breakfast and bacon (1900s)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfast-health-america-kellog-food-lifestyle

GM streetcar conspiracy (1920s)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

Phoebus Cartel; Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (1920s)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy

Have to read into this; might be the actual basis for the events in the story

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• United States v. E. C. Knight Co., 156 U.S. 1 (1895)

  • Supreme Court restricted monopoly regulation.

• Industrial Commission (1898)

  • Investigates railroad pricing, among other things

• Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904)

  • The Supreme Court orders a regional railway monopoly, formed through a merger of 3 corporations, to be dissolved.

• Swift & Co. v. United States, 196 U.S. 375 (1905)

  • The antitrust laws entitled the federal government to regulate monopolies that had a direct impact on commerce

• Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1911)

  • Standard Oil was dismantled into geographical entities given its size, and that it was too much of a monopoly

• United States v. American Tobacco Company, 221 U.S. 106 (1911)

  • Found to have monopolized the trade.

"Those big tycoons are practical men. They won't waste a dime on heckling you if it no longer serves their pocketbooks.''"

In 1949, General Electric installed the first gas turbine built in the U.S. for the purpose of generating power at the Belle Isle Station, a 3.5-MW unit, owned by Oklahoma Gas & Electric.

Renewable energy source

solar cell- The next breakthrough in PV technology came in 1940, with Russell Shoemaker Ohl, a semiconductor researcher at Bell Labs. The first practical solar cell was developed a few years later in 1954 by Daryl Chapin, Calvin Fuller, and Gerald Pearson, researchers at Bell Labs.

wind energy- wind is the oldest form of renewable energy, started in Greek. In 1888, Charles Brush, an inventor in Ohio, constructed a 60-foot wind turbine capable of generating electricity in his backyard.

Interest in wind power was renewed by the oil crisis of the 1970s, which spurred research and development.

By the 1980s, the first utility-scale wind farms began popping up in California. Europe has been the leader in offshore wind, with the first offshore wind farm installed in 1991 in Denmark.

The business model began to shift in 1970s by oil shock, and environmental problems. However, in 1940s, because of abundant energy source, renewable energy was limited.

Regulation of nuclear power dates back to the 40s and 50s. Politically motivated by the cold war, nuclear development was not only a concern of energy but also of national defense.

To this day, the sentiment remains the same. 80 years of development in nuclear engineering allowed us to create technologies such as breeder reactors and 3rd/4th generation reactors mentioned above, not to mention molten salt reactors that have been operational since last August.

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC125953

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1029/ML102980443.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4EJQPWjFj8

2. What role did government and military funding play for scientific and technological advancements during World War II?

2. Does the anti-trust law actually promote innovation?