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"You'll never look at your wall socket the same again."
--Evan Ratliff, coauthor, Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World
"From the twisted copper wires of electricity's early years McNichol spins a story buzzing with genius and fraud, ambition and infamy, hilarity and humiliation. It's a joy to read: a comic operetta of American industrial history, full of great men, small minds and an alarming number of dead dogs."
--Craig Stoltz, health editor, Washington Post
"Few writers explain technology as well as Tom McNichol. No one's as good at finding the humor in it."
--Jeffrey O'Brien, senior editor, Wired magazine
"A fascinating history of the battle that decided what comes through the wires when we flick a switch. A great story of how far people will go to prove they're 'right' - and make a buck."
--J. J. Yore, executive producer, public radio's Marketplace
"A tale of astonishing genius and greed, a perfect reflection of the competing forces that built corporate America. McNichol offers us a ringside seat at the birth of a superpower, and it's a bloody, messy, and altogether fascinating spectacle."
--Brooke Gladstone, cohost, NPR's On the Media
"You'll never look at your wall socket the same again."
--Evan Ratliff, coauthor, Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World
"From the twisted copper wires of electricity's early years McNichol spins a story buzzing with genius and fraud, ambition and infamy, hilarity and humiliation. It's a joy to read: a comic operetta of American industrial history, full of great men, small minds and an alarming number of dead dogs."
--Craig Stoltz, health editor, Washington Post
"Few writers explain technology as well as Tom McNichol. No one's as good at finding the humor in it."
--Jeffrey O'Brien, senior editor, Wired magazine
"A fascinating history of the battle that decided what comes through the wires when we flick a switch. A great story of how far people will go to prove they're 'right' - and make a buck."
--J. J. Yore, executive producer, public radio's Marketplace
"A tale of astonishing genius and greed, a perfect reflection of the competing forces that built corporate America. McNichol offers us a ringside seat at the birth of a superpower, and it's a bloody, messy, and altogether fascinating spectacle."
--Brooke Gladstone, cohost, NPR's On the Media
Prologue Negative and Positive 1
1 First Sparks 5
2 Lightning in a Bottle 13
3 Enter the Wizard 25
4 Let There Be Light 41
5 Electrifying the Big Apple 55
6 Tesla 69
7 The Animal Experiments 87
8 Old Sparky 107
9 Pulse of the World 129
10 Killing an Elephant 143
11 Twilight by Battery Power 155
12 DC's Revenge 173
Epilogue Standards Wars: Past, Present, and Future 181
Further Readings in Electricity 187
The Author 191
Index 193
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | 208 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780787982676 |
| ISBN-10: | 0787982679 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | McNichol, Tom |
| Hersteller: |
Wiley
John Wiley & Sons |
| Maße: | 235 x 157 x 17 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Tom McNichol |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2006 |
| Gewicht: | 0,498 kg |
Prologue Negative and Positive 1
1 First Sparks 5
2 Lightning in a Bottle 13
3 Enter the Wizard 25
4 Let There Be Light 41
5 Electrifying the Big Apple 55
6 Tesla 69
7 The Animal Experiments 87
8 Old Sparky 107
9 Pulse of the World 129
10 Killing an Elephant 143
11 Twilight by Battery Power 155
12 DC's Revenge 173
Epilogue Standards Wars: Past, Present, and Future 181
Further Readings in Electricity 187
The Author 191
Index 193
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | 208 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780787982676 |
| ISBN-10: | 0787982679 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | McNichol, Tom |
| Hersteller: |
Wiley
John Wiley & Sons |
| Maße: | 235 x 157 x 17 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Tom McNichol |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2006 |
| Gewicht: | 0,498 kg |
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