Ebook: The electric century : how the taming of lightning shaped the modern world
Author: Williams John B
- Tags: Electricity -- History, SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, Electricity
- Series: Springer-Praxis books in popular science
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Springer
- City: Cham
- Language: English
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This book is about how electricity has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and play. Some twenty topics are covered, with an abundance of graphs and images to build a comprehensive picture. Each looks at the developments, and the people who initiated them, together with how one led to the next and their subsequent impact on society. Topics include electric supply, lighting through X-rays, and all thoseRead more...
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The Electric Century examines how we got from then to now. The nineteenth is often described as the century of steam from the impact it had on employment and transport, and The Electric Century makesRead more...
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