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Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
David Bodanis
Format: Book
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In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets of electricity come vividly to life, including... |
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Basic Electricity
United States Bureau of Naval Personnel
Format: Book
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This expanded and revised U.S. Navy training course text provides thorough coverage of the basic theory of electricity and its applications. It is unquestionably the best book of its kind for either broad or more limited studies of electrical fundamentals. It is divided into 21 chapters... |
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The Farnsworth Invention
Aaron Sorkin
Format: Book
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Drama
Characters: 15 male, 3 female
It's 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called "television." Separated by two thousand miles, each knows that if he stops working, even for a moment, the other will gain the edge.
A... |
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Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century
Iwan Rhys Morus
Format: Book
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The only scientist to appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. The electric telegraph made mass-communication possible;... |
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Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius
Marc J Seifer
Format: Book
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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) , credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many... |
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The Last Days of Night: A Novel
Graham Moore - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America - from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and author of The SherlockianSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION... |
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Tesla Vs Edison: The Life-Long Feud that Electrified the World
Nigel Cawthorne - Chartwell Books
Format: Print book
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Nikola Tesla today is largely unknown and overlooked among the great scientists of the modern era. While Thomas Edison, the most famous inventor in American history, gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb. But it was his one-time assistant and life-long arch nemesis, Tesla, who made... |
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