Screen LibraryElectric universe：the shocking true story of electricity
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Crown Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 308 p.: ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
1400045509 9781400045501 |
| Index Number: | O44 |
| CLC: |
O44-49 O441.1-49 TM-49 |
| Call Number: | TM-49/B666 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-288) and index. pt. I. Wires -- 1. The 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. A solitary man : Karlsruhe, Germany, 1877 -- 7. Power in the air : Suffolk coast, 1939, and Bruneval, France, 1942 -- 8. Power unleashed : Hamburg, 1943 -- pt. IV. A computer built of rock -- 9. Turing : Cambridge, 1936, and Bletchley Park, 1942 -- 10. Turing's legacy : New Jersey In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world's most famous equation. Now, in Electric Universe, he illuminates the wondrous yet invisible force that permeates our universe and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets. For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be r |