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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. What begin as a long-running dispute in biology, involving a dead frog's twitching leg, a scalpel, and a metal plate, would become an invention that transformed the history of the world: the battery. Science journalist Henry Schlesinger traces the history of this essential power source and demonstrates its impact on our lives, from Alessandro Volta's first copper-and-zinc model in 1800 to twenty-first-century technological breakthroughs. Schlesinger introduces the charlatans and geniuses, the paupers and magnates, who were attracted to the power of the battery.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Energy technology & engineering Electrical engineering

• Full title: Battery
• Author: Henry Schlesinger
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322
• EAN: 9780061442940
• ISBN: 0061442941
• ID: 02535375
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Weight: 407 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 133 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. April 2011

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