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Media type:
Book
Title:
The battery
:
how portable power sparked a technological revolution
Contains:
A world without science -- The death of superstition -- The tale of the frog -- Science, showmanship, and the voltaic pile -- Not a gentleman of science -- What hath god wrought? -- Finally, something useful -- Power and light -- Genius by design -- Victorian age of discovery -- Without wires -- Mass marketing miracles -- What will they think of next? -- Distance dies in the parlor -- The endless frontier -- See it! hear it! get it! -- Smaller and smaller -- Always on -- Bring on the future -- The strange case of the Baghdad battery.
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
Introduction: History in real time -- A world without science -- The death of superstition -- The tale of the frog -- Science, showmanship, and the voltaic pile -- Not a gentleman of science -- What hath God wrought? -- Finally, something useful -- Power and light -- Genius by design -- Victorian age of discovery -- Without wires -- Mass-marketing miracles -- What will they think of next? -- Distance dies in the parlor -- The endless frontier -- See it! Hear it! Get it! -- Smaller and smaller -- Always on -- Lab reports -- Epilogue: Bring on the future -- Appendix: Those troublesome Baghdad batteries
A world without science -- The death of superstition -- The tale of the frog -- Science, showmanship, and the voltaic pile -- Not a gentleman of science -- What hath god wrought? -- Finally, something useful -- Power and light -- Genius by design -- Victorian age of discovery -- Without wires -- Mass marketing miracles -- What will they think of next? -- Distance dies in the parlor -- The endless frontier -- See it! hear it! get it! -- Smaller and smaller -- Always on -- Bring on the future -- The strange case of the Baghdad battery