All in all, it is an enjoyable book which keeps you hooked from start to finish like a fiction novel. My library Help Advanced Book Search. It is an example of the value of graft, tempered with luck, in pursuing scientific endeavours. In this book I show what happened as humankind opened that door, which has taken a mere two centuries. For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. 
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I had no idea of how electricity had covered so many aspects of our life. Absolutely worth a read, I'd recommend without hesitation Electric Universe to anyone who wants a great overview of the history of electricity. May 06, Wisdom Zelda rated it it was amazing. Many musicians of other genres were interested in transistors because the transistor amplifiers removed the perceived problem of distortion.
Levy delivers a smart, crisp performance of Bodanis's enjoyable survey of the history of electricity. That said, this book does a electgic job of telling not only what electricity is and why it is so important to us, it also gives a great overview of the stumbling way discoveries happen and how the timing has had a major impact on the history of the human race.
A History of Electricity and Magnetism. Just for good measure, the reader had an annoying, raspy voice. From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery by a master science writer. Nov 02, William rated it it was ok. It sets the standard for how we wish to understand all the other forces of nature.
Review: Electric Universe by David Bodanis | Books | The Guardian
In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets of electricity come vividly to life, including familiar giants like Thomas Edison; the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system; and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York on a platform of persecuting Catholics.
For amateur scientists he tells how to make a battery from household products. This book tells of the many inventions that were created using the powers of electricity. First of all, it explains electricity in simple terms so I understood it. However, if you like to learn science without falling asleep with the book on your lap, you will definitely find Electric Universe worth reading.
The book made the nearly unpardonable crime of leaving out Tesla, but this can be forgiven in a book that is so readable. For, a if we didn't care, we wouldn't bother to tease, and b those fallible beings are also us! That's like writing the history of Christianity and forgetting to mention Jesus Christ. You make one sly suggestion yourself when you tell us that she once considered becoming a nun! And the war is brutal.
And deep inside there, in the dark, barely slowed from their original million mph, the waves splatter into the ancient, moist blood vessels and cell membranes, and something unexpected happens.
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If you already have a reasonably good understanding of how electricity works, skip this electrlc - it isn't for you. From inside the book. Aug 15, Candace Dorn rated it really liked it. Science Technology Audiobooks Category: Well, this was a bit surprising of a read. Interesting is the development of the idea and usefulness of a semi-conductor. To bodahis it was all worthless propaganda. The conclusion should be: Was this event hard to write about?
I have mixed feelings about this book--the breezy tone struck me as condescending rather than friendly, and most of the stories Bodains tells are familiar--Michael Faraday's struggles with class Feb 15, Minutes. But electricity is better at details. Morse seemed signal silicon simply sparks stretching switches telegraph telephone there's Thomson thought tion Tizard transistor transmitter tricity trons Turing Turing's University Press Watson Watt Whitehouse who'd wire wrote York young.
The latter, 'The Brain and Beyond', is incredibly thought-provoking, illustrating just how miraculous the human body and its inner workings are.
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