The battery : how portable power sparked a technological revolution / Henry Schlesinger.
The first popular history of the technology which harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of the modern era. Line drawings throughout.
Record details
- ISBN: 0061442933
- ISBN: 9780061442933
- Physical Description: xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Books ; [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
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| 245 | 1 | 4. | ‡aThe battery : ‡bhow portable power sparked a technological revolution / ‡cHenry Schlesinger. |
| 250 | . | ‡aFirst edition | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡a[Washington, D.C.] : ‡bSmithsonian Books ; ‡aNew York : ‡bHarper, ‡c[2010] | |
| 264 | 4. | ‡c©2010 | |
| 300 | . | ‡axi, 308 pages : ‡billustrations ; ‡c24 cm | |
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| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aIntroduction: 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. |
| 520 | . | ‡aThe first popular history of the technology which harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of the modern era. Line drawings throughout. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aElectric batteries ‡xDesign and construction ‡xHistory. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aStorage batteries ‡xDesign and construction ‡xHistory. | |
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