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000338715 020__ $$a9780061442933 (alk. paper)
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000338715 1001_ $$aSchlesinger, Henry R.
000338715 24514 $$aThe battery :$$bhow portable power sparked a technological revolution /$$cHenry Schlesinger.
000338715 250__ $$a1st ed.
000338715 260__ $$a[Washington, D.C.] :$$bSmithsonian Books ;$$aNew York :$$bHarper,$$cc2010.
000338715 300__ $$axi, 308 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000338715 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.
000338715 5050_ $$aIntroduction: 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 -- Epilogue: Bring on the future -- Appendix: Those troublesome Baghdad batteries.
000338715 520__ $$aThe first popular history of the technology which harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of the modern era. Line drawings throughout.
000338715 650_0 $$aElectric batteries$$xDesign and construction$$xHistory.
000338715 650_0 $$aStorage batteries$$xDesign and construction$$xHistory.
000338715 85200 $$bgen$$hTK2901$$i.S27$$i2010
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