The battery
Subtitle: how portable power sparked a technological revolution
By: Henry Schlesinger
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books; Harper
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780061442933
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: History in real time; title: A world without science; title: The death of superstition; title: The tale of the frog; title: Science, showmanship, and the voltaic pile; title: Not a gentleman of science; title: What hath God wrought?; title: Finally, something useful; title: Power and light; title: Genius by design; title: Victorian age of discovery; title: Without wires; title: Mass-marketing miracles; title: What will they think of next?; title: Distance dies in the parlor; title: The endless frontier; title: See it! Hear it! Get it!; title: Smaller and smaller; title: Always on; title: Lab reports; title: Epilogue: Bring on the future; title: Appendix: Those troublesome Baghdad batteries.