TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schlesinger,Henry R.
TI  - The battery: how portable power sparked a technological revolution 
SN  - 9780061442933 :
AV  - TK2901 .S27 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - [Washington, D.C.], New York
PB  - Smithsonian Books, Harper
KW  - Electric batteries
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - History
KW  - Storage batteries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index; Introduction: 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
N2  - The first popular history of the technology which harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of the modern era. Line drawings throughout
ER  -