The battery
Subtitle: how portable power sparked a technological revolution
By: Henry Schlesinger.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780061442933
Subjects: Electric batteries -- Design and construction -- History; Storage batteries -- Design and construction -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: 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: Bring on the future; title: The strange case of the Baghdad battery.