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The battery: how portable power sparked a technological revolution

By Schlesinger , Henry R

Book information

Publisher
Smithsonian Books, HarperCollins;Harper
Year
2010
ISBN
9780061442933, 9780061985294
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
734 kB (752025 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
xi, 308 pages : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Electric batteries--Design and construction--Histo

Description

Introduction: History in real time -- A world without science -- The death of superstition -- The tale of the frog -- Science, showmanship, and the voltaic pile -- Not a gentleman of science -- What hath God wrought? -- Finally, something useful -- Power and light -- Genius by design -- Victorian age of discovery -- Without wires -- Mass-marketing miracles -- What will they think of next? -- Distance dies in the parlor -- The endless frontier -- See it! Hear it! Get it! -- Smaller and smaller -- Always on -- Lab reports -- Epilogue: Bring on the future -- Appendix: Those troublesome Baghdad batteries.;The first popular history of the technology which harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of the modern era. Line drawings throughout.

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