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The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution Paperback - 2011
by Henry Schlesinger
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- Title The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
- Author Henry Schlesinger
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins
- Date 2011-04-13
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0061442941_new
- ISBN 9780061442940 / 0061442941
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.95 x 5.37 x 0.77 in (20.19 x 13.64 x 1.96 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 621.312
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From the rear cover
An eye-opening history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of our time.
What begin 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. Science journalist Henry Schlesinger traces the history of this essential power source and demonstrates its impact on our lives, from Alessandro Volta's first copper-and-zinc model in 1800 to twenty-first-century technological breakthroughs. Schlesinger introduces the charlatans and geniuses, the paupers and magnates, who were attracted to the power of the battery.