Electric heaters may convert electricity fairly efficiently, but generating electricity itself is a fairly inefficient process. Overall, electric heaters will be less efficient than petroleum-fuel heaters. This is why most central home heating systems use natural gas or petroleum gas whenever they are available.
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to 1920s. The main objective of the Progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government. The movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses.By taking down these corrupt representatives in office a further means of direct democracy would be established.n the 1940s typically historians saw the Progressive Era as a prelude to the New Deal and dated it from 1901 (when Roosevelt became president) to the start of World War I in 1914 or 1917. Historians have moved back in time emphasizing the Progressive reformers at the municipal and state levels in the 1890s.
Booker T. Washington was the leading progressive voice in the African American community. In 1912 Roosevelt created a new party, the Progressive Party to run for president, but he lost and the party faded away. The 1912 party is only a small part of the entire Progressive movement.The Progressive Era lasted from the 1890s to the 1930s, and influenced all sectors of American society.omen came to the fore in the Progressive era and proved their value as social workers. Jane Addams of Chicago was only the most prominent of many leaders. The woman suffrage movement was a key part of Progressivism.