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Title:
Energy : a human history
Author:
Rhodes, Richard, 1937- author.
ISBN:
1501105353

9781501105357 :
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
xiv, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Part 1. Power. No wood, no kingdom ; Raising water by fire ; A giant with one idea ; To make for all the world ; Catch me who can ; Unconquered steam! -- Part 2. Light. Rushlight to gaslight ; Pursuing Leviathan ; Burning fluids ; Wild animals ; Great forces of nature ; A cadence of water ; An enormous yellow cheese ; Pillars of black cloud -- Part 3. New fires. A gift of God ; One-armed men doing welding ; Full power in fifty-seven ; Affection from the smog ; The dark age to come ; All aboard.
Abstract:
The fascinating history behind energy transitions over time wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.
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