Simply Electrifying: The Technology That Transformed The World, From Benjamin Franklin To Elon Musk
by Craig R. Roach /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Imagine your life without the internet. Without phones.
Without television. Without sprawling cities. Without the freedom
to continue working and playing after the sun goes
down.
Imagine your life without the internet. Without phones.
Without television. Without sprawling cities. Without the freedom
to continue working and playing after the sun goes
down.
Electricity is at the core of all modern life. It has transformed
our society more than any other technology. Yet, no book offers a
comprehensive history about this technological marvel.
Electricity is at the core of all modern life. It has transformed
our society more than any other technology. Yet, no book offers a
comprehensive history about this technological marvel.
Until now.
Until now.Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the
World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the
World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the
250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men
and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin,
James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison,
Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and
more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete,
thrilling, and often-dangerous story of electricity’s historic
discovery, development, and worldwide application.
brings to life the
250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men
and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin,
James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison,
Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and
more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete,
thrilling, and often-dangerous story of electricity’s historic
discovery, development, and worldwide application.
Electricity plays a fundamental role not only in our everyday
lives but in history’s most pivotal events, from global climate
change and the push for wind- and solar-generated electricity to
Japan’s nuclear accident at Fukushima and Iran’s pursuit of
nuclear weapons.
Electricity plays a fundamental role not only in our everyday
lives but in history’s most pivotal events, from global climate
change and the push for wind- and solar-generated electricity to
Japan’s nuclear accident at Fukushima and Iran’s pursuit of
nuclear weapons.
Written by electricity expert and four-decade veteran of the
industry Craig R. Roach,
Written by electricity expert and four-decade veteran of the
industry Craig R. Roach,Simply Electrifying
Simply Electrifying marshals, in
fascinating narrative detail, the full range of factors that
shaped the electricity business over timescience, technology,
law, politics, government regulation, economics, business
strategy, and culturebefore looking forward toward the
exhilarating prospects for electricity generation and use that
will shape our future.
marshals, in
fascinating narrative detail, the full range of factors that
shaped the electricity business over timescience, technology,
law, politics, government regulation, economics, business
strategy, and culturebefore looking forward toward the
exhilarating prospects for electricity generation and use that
will shape our future.