The battery: how portable power sparked a technological revolution
Schlesinger, Henry R
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.
श्रेणियाँ:
साल:
2010
संस्करण:
1st ed
प्रकाशन:
HarperCollins;Harper, Smithsonian Books
भाषा:
english
ISBN 10:
0061985295
ISBN 13:
9780061985294
फ़ाइल:
MOBI , 734 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2010