The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (989 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061442941 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yet the process remained mysterious for decades. Schlesinger (Spycraft) discusses the battery's evolution from the Italian Alessandro Volta's early 19th-century copper and zinc model through 21st-century advances in nanotechnology. 30 b&w line drawings. In 1800 Volta constructed his famous pile of metal discs; touching each end generated a shock that could then be repeated. All rights reserved. . (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Technology journalist Schlesinger provides an illuminating historical account of a device whose enormous influence has been downplayed or misunderstood. The term battery is attributed to Benjamin Franklin, who arranged Leyden jars in a manner akin to a battery of cannon. Combining enormous learning with a lively and entertaining style, this book deserves a wide general readership. Whi
Five Stars Pieremanuele Excellent. C. Griffith said Expected more about batteries in a book entitled "The Battery". 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 required batteries, than about batteries themselves. Batteries do not make an appearance before page Expected more about batteries in a book entitled "The Battery" 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 required batteries, than about batteries themselves. Batteries do not make an appearance before page 38, the previous pages being. 8, the previous pages being. Great reading as long as you are not an EE John Witzel 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 reviews nexttime before I buy a technical book from HarperCollins.Being an Electrical Engineer I found the authors credibilit
“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. If you like Wired Magazine and popular science books, you'll love the "hidden history" of The Battery.