The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061442941 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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If you like Wired Magazine and popular science books, you'll love the "hidden history" of The Battery.. “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 ScientistsHenry 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
"Five Stars" according to Pieremanuele. Excellent. "Expected more about batteries in a book entitled "The Battery"" according to C. Griffith. Henry Schlesinger's well-written and interesting book "The Battery: how portable power sparked a technological revolution" is in many ways more of a history of electricity and its uses than it is about batteries. Much of the text is about the uses of batteries, and the devices that req. Great reading as long as you are not an EE I thought this book was well worth the money even though the author really needed to run this past a technical reviewer before submitting it for publication; I can't believe the publisher HarperCollins didn't bother with this either. I will wait and pay more attention to others peoples
. The term battery is attributed to Benjamin Franklin, who arranged Leyden jars in a manner akin to a battery of cannon. Yet the process remained mysterious for decades. From Publishers Weekly Obscured by the handheld electronic devices that pervade our high-tech culture is the battery that powers them all. Combining enormous learning with a lively and entertaining style, this book deserves a wide general readership. In 1800 Volta constructed his famous pile of metal discs; touching each end generated a shock that could then be repeated. Technology journa