The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
Book by Henry R. Schlesinger
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In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and David Bodanis's E=MC2, The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and ... Google Books
Originally published: February 27, 2010
Author: Henry R. Schlesinger
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The Battery: How Portable-Power Sparked a Technological Revolution is a good book to introduce people to the history of electric batteries. Not too technical or ...
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May 1, 2010 · From the beginning of the 19th century on, the battery was rapidly improved. Faraday's 1828 discovery of induction would lead to the development ...
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Schlesinger ( Spycraft ) discusses the battery's evolution from the Italian Alessandro Volta's early 19th-century copper and zinc model through 21st-century ...
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An eye-opening history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of our time.
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In The Battery: How Portable Power. Sparked a Technological Revolution, jour- nalist Henry Schlesinger tells us how the battery got its name: a bank of them.
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Apr 12, 2011 · Henry Schlesinger's The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific ...
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The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution. HarperCollins, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. First printing, very good + hardcover ...
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Henry Schlesinger's The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological ...