An edition of The battery
(2010)
The battery
how portable power sparked a technological revolution
1st ed.
by Henry R. Schlesinger
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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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The battery: how portable power sparked a technological revolution
2010, Smithsonian Books, Harper
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0061442933 9780061442933
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.
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