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Over the years, since the way to generate electricity discovered by M. Faraday in the United Kingdom in the early part of the nineteenth century, the use of electricity has been continuously increasing.

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Dhillon, B.S. (2014). Introduction. In: Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Power Generation. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04019-6_1

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