6 books in Science - Electricity
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Electric Universe
How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
Written by David Bodanis
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $15.00
In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets of electricity come vividly to life, including familiar giants like Thomas Edison; the visionary Michael Faraday... Read more >
How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
Written by David Bodanis
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $15.00
In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets of electricity come vividly to life, including familiar giants like Thomas Edison; the visionary Michael Faraday... Read more >
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Stealing God's Thunder
Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
Written by Philip Dray
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $14.95
“Dray captures the genius and ingenuity of Franklin’s scientific thinking and then does something even more fascinating: He shows how science shaped his diplomacy, politics, and Enlightenment philosophy.”
–Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Today we think of Benjamin Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in... Read more >
Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
Written by Philip Dray
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $14.95
“Dray captures the genius and ingenuity of Franklin’s scientific thinking and then does something even more fascinating: He shows how science shaped his diplomacy, politics, and Enlightenment philosophy.”
–Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Today we think of Benjamin Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in... Read more >
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Stealing God's Thunder
Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
Written by Philip Dray
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 2, 2005
Price: $14.95
“We forget, living in this era of heavily patented research and closely guarded results, how wonderfully exciting the scientific world used to be. In Stealing God’s Thunder, the story of Benjamin Franklin’s invention of the lightening rod and the resulting consequences, that sense of wonder and excitement and even fear comes... Read more >
Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
Written by Philip Dray
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 2, 2005
Price: $14.95
“We forget, living in this era of heavily patented research and closely guarded results, how wonderfully exciting the scientific world used to be. In Stealing God’s Thunder, the story of Benjamin Franklin’s invention of the lightening rod and the resulting consequences, that sense of wonder and excitement and even fear comes... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Electric Universe
The Shocking True Story of Electricity
Written by David Bodanis
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2005
Price: $15.00
In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world’s most famous equation. Now, in Electric Universe, he illuminates the wondrous yet invisible force that permeates our universe—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.
For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a... Read more >
The Shocking True Story of Electricity
Written by David Bodanis
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2005
Price: $15.00
In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world’s most famous equation. Now, in Electric Universe, he illuminates the wondrous yet invisible force that permeates our universe—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.
For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Written by Jill Jonnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $15.95
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless... Read more >
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Written by Jill Jonnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $15.95
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Written by Jill Jonnes
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $15.95
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless... Read more >
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Written by Jill Jonnes
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $15.95
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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