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The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution - Paperback
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- ISBN
- 9780061442940
- Book Title
- Battery : How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Science
- Topic
- Power Resources / Electrical, History, Power Resources / General, Electronics / Digital, Science & Technology
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Item Weight
- 10 oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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"Henry Schlesinger is playful and intelligent and obscenely well read." -- Richard Zacks, author of The Pirate Hunter "Henry Schlesinger's fascinating and superbly researched history of the battery is the story of civilization as we know it." -- Michael Belfiore, author of The Department of Mad Scientists Henry Schlesinger's The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of our time. If you like Wired Magazine and popular science books, you'll love the "hidden history" of The Battery.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061442941
ISBN-13
9780061442940
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92337707
Product Key Features
Book Title
Battery : How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Power Resources / Electrical, History, Power Resources / General, Electronics / Digital, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Item Weight
10 oz
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Trade
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Just as a cracker-size battery powers a cell phone for days, so does Schlesigner's wit enliven an unlikely topic--The History of the ever-shrinking, ever more potent Battery." -- Richard Zacks, author of "An Underground Education" and best-seller "The Pirate Hunter" Henry Schlesinger's fascinating and supurbly researched history of the battery is the story of civilization as we know it. The Battery illuminates in compellingly rich detail the scientists and entrepreneurs responsible for so much of the technology we take for granted today. -- Michael Belfiore, author of The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Shaping Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbsre, Just as a cracker-size battery powers a cell phone for days, so does Schlesigner's wit enliven an unlikely topic--The History of the ever-shrinking, ever more potent Battery.", Henry Schlesinger's fascinating and supurbly researched history of the battery is the story of civilization as we know it. The Battery illuminates in compellingly rich detail the scientists and entrepreneurs responsible for so much of the technology we take for granted today.(Michael Belfiore, author of The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Shaping Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbsre), Henry Schlesinger's fascinating and supurbly researched history of the battery is the story of civilization as we know it. The Battery illuminates in compellingly rich detail the scientists and entrepreneurs responsible for so much of the technology we take for granted today.
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