By Henry Schlesinger
Within the culture of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and David Bodanis's E=MC2, The Battery is the 1st renowned background of the know-how that harnessed electrical energy and powered the best medical and technological advances of our time.
What all started as a long-running dispute in biology, related to a useless frog's twitching leg, a scalpel, and a steel plate, could turn into an invention that remodeled the historical past of the area: the battery. From Alessandro Volta's first copper-and-zinc version in 1800 to twenty-first-century technological breakthroughs, technology journalist Henry Schlesinger lines the background of this crucial strength resource and demonstrates its influence on our lives.
Volta's first battery not just settled the frog's leg query, it additionally unleashed a box of medical examine that resulted in the invention of recent parts and new innovations, from Samuel Morse's telegraph to Alexander Graham Bell's phone to Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. and up to date advances like nanotechnology are poised to create a brand new iteration of paradigm-shifting power resources.
Schlesinger introduces the charlatans and geniuses, paupers and magnates, drawn to the ability of the battery, together with Michael Faraday, Guglielmo Marconi, Gaylord Wilshire, and Hugo Gernsback, the writer and would-be inventor who coined the time period "science fiction." A kaleidoscopic travel of an creative invention that helped bring in the trendy global, The Battery is as exciting because it is enlightening.
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