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The battery: how portable power sparked a technological revolution
The battery: how portable power sparked a technological revolution
Author
Schlesinger, Henry R
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
c2010
Language
English
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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
Bring on the future
Those troublesome Baghdad batteries.
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Design and construction
Electric batteries
Electric batteries -- Design and construction -- History
History
Storage batteries
Storage batteries -- Design and construction -- History
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9780061442933
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