Electric universe : how electricity switched on the modern world
Presents the history of the science of electricity, discussing the influence of the scientists and pioneers who investigated the unique properties of charged particles, including Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday, and Samuel Morse
Print Book,English, ©2005
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Three Rivers Press, New York, ©2005
History (form)
308 pages ; 20 cm
9780307335982, 0307335984
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pt. I. Wires
1. frontiersman and the dandy : Albany, 1830, and Washington, D.C., 1836
2. Aleck and Mabel : Boston, 1875
3. Thomas and J.J. : New York, 1878
pt. II. Waves
4. Faraday's God : London, 1831
5. Atlantic storms : HMS Agamemnon, 1858, and Scotland, 1861
pt. III. Wave machines
6. solitary man : Karlsruhe, Germany, 1887
7. Power in the air : Suffolk coast, 1939, and Bruneval, France, 1942
8. Power unleashed : Hamburg, 1943
pt. IV. computer built of rock
9. Turing : Cambridge, 1936, and Bletchley Park, 1942
10. Turing's legacy : New Jersey, 1947
pt. V. brain and beyond
11. Wet electricity : Plymouth, England, 1947
12. Electric moods : Indianapolis, 1972, and today
What happened next
Mr. Amp, Mr. Volt, and Mr. Watt
Originally published: New York : Crown Publishers, 2005