Abstract
This article develops two case studies of wave energy devices projects during the interwar period in France: Le Minou’s ram (1925-1927) and the Cattaneo ondo-pump (1925-1945). These historical examples meet two objectives, one historical and the other epistemological: they show the existence of mechanisms of persistence in the technological imaginary that orient the technical possibilities of the “thermo-industrial civilization” and they question the relevance and current use of the concept of “energy system” as a tool to analyze societies.
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