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Publication Name
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN
9780061442933
Book Title
Battery : How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
Item Length
9 in
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Year
2010
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1 in
Author
Henry Schlesinger
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Science
Topic
Industrial Engineering, Power Resources / Electrical, History, Power Resources / General, Science & Technology
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and David Bodanis's E=MC2, The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of our time. What began as a long-running dispute in biology, involving a dead frog's twitching leg, a scalpel, and a metal plate, would become an invention that transformed the history of the world: the battery. From Alessandro Volta's first copper-and-zinc model in 1800 to twenty-first-century technological breakthroughs, science journalist Henry Schlesinger traces the history of this essential power source and demonstrates its impact on our lives. Volta's first battery not only settled the frog's leg question, it also unleashed a field of scientific research that led to the discovery of new elements and new inventions, from Samuel Morse's telegraph to Alexander Graham Bell's telephone to Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. And recent advances like nanotechnology are poised to create a new generation of paradigm-shifting energy sources. Schlesinger introduces the charlatans and geniuses, paupers and magnates, attracted to the power of the battery, including Michael Faraday, Guglielmo Marconi, Gaylord Wilshire, and Hugo Gernsback, the publisher and would-be inventor who coined the term "science fiction." A kaleidoscopic tour of an ingenious invention that helped usher in the modern world, The Battery is as entertaining as it is enlightening.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061442933
ISBN-13
9780061442933
eBay Product ID (ePID)
74278857

Product Key Features

Book Title
Battery : How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
Author
Henry Schlesinger
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Industrial Engineering, Power Resources / Electrical, History, Power Resources / General, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Tk2901.S27 2010
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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.
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2009-034303
Dewey Decimal
621.31/242
Dewey Edition
22

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