What if Electric power grids had gone differently?

Central stations and distribution lines make cheap power available on tap.

If it had gone differently: Factories stay chained to their own steam plants; there is no clean power in the home and no electronics to come.

1. 1906Radio broadcasting, Mass culture and mass politics keep moving at the speed of print; no living-room broadcast, ever.
2. 1913The moving assembly line, Cars, appliances and machines stay hand-built and expensive; there is no mass consumer economy.
3. 1936Television broadcasting, Mass culture stays a matter of radio and print; the living-room screen that reshapes politics and leisure never arrives.
4. 1947The transistor, Computers stay room-sized, rare and institutional; there is no personal, portable, cheap electronics.