The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (838 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061442941 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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If you like Wired Magazine and popular science books, you'll love the "hidden history" of The Battery.. “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
In 1800 Volta constructed his famous pile of metal discs; touching each end generated a shock that could then be repeated. From Publishers Weekly Obscured by the handheld electronic devices that pervade our high-tech culture is the battery that powers them all. Yet the process remained mysterious for decades. Technology journalist Schlesinger provides an illuminating historical account of a device whose enormous influence has been downplayed or misunderstood. . While electric outlets replaced batteries in much of the 20th century, that process has recently been reversed, as laptop users surely appreciate. 30 b&w line
Pieremanuele said Five Stars. Excellent. Expected more about batteries in a book entitled "The Battery" C. Griffith 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 devoted to the earlier history of electricity and magnetism, including the Leyden jar, a sort of capacitor which stores electricity, and also to the work William Gilbert and Benjam. John Witzel said Great reading as long as you are not an EE. 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 credibility sink lower each time I came across another of many technical errors. At the very least I expect any technical author to know the difference between voltage and current when writin