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The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution

The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution - Paperback

by Henry Schlesinger
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Availability:In StockContributor:Henry SchlesingerPublish date:2011-04-12Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061442940ISBN-10:61442941UPC:9780061442940Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:History, ElectricalSize:7.95 x 5.37 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCTYP796MR

"Henry Schlesinger is playful and intelligent and obscenely well read." -- Richard Zacks, author of The Pirate Hunter

"Henry Schlesinger's fascinating and superbly researched history of the battery is the story of civilization as we know it." -- Michael Belfiore, author of The Department of Mad Scientists

Henry Schlesinger's The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of our time. If you like Wired Magazine and popular science books, you'll love the "hidden history" of The Battery.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061442940ISBN-10:61442941UPC:9780061442940Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:History, ElectricalSize:7.95 x 5.37 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCTYP796MR
Schlesinger, Henry: -

Henry Schlesinger is a journalist and author specializing in science and emerging technologies. He is the coauthor of Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda, and lives in New York City.

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