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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Schlesinger, Henry R.     Subjects     Electric batteries -- Design and construction -- History.     Storage batteries -- Design and construction -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Schlesinger, Henry R.       by title:      The battery : how po...         MARC Display

The battery : how portable power sparked a technological revolution / Henry Schlesinger. by Schlesinger, Henry R. [Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Books ; New York : Harper, c2010. Subjects Electric batteries -- Design and construction -- History.   Storage batteries -- Design and construction -- History. ISBN:  9780061442933 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 0061442933 (hardcover : alk. paper) Description:  xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 621.31242 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 621.31242 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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