Driving force
the natural magic of magnets
by James D. Livingston
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Driving Force unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human among them, executed along the way; led Einstein to the theory of relativity; helped defeat Hitler's U-boats; inspired writers from Plato to Dave Barry.
In a way that will delight and instruct even the nonmathematical among us, James Livingston shows us how scientists today are creating magnets and superconductors that can levitate high-speed trains, produce images of our internal organs, steer high-energy particles in giant accelerators, and - last but not least - heat our mourning coffee.
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Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets
April 25, 1997, Harvard University Press
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Driving force: the natural magic of magnets
1996, Harvard University Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-298) and index.
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