Driving force: the natural magic of magnets

Driving Force unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human among them, executed along the way; led Einstein t...

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1. Verfasser: Livingston, James D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Harvard Univ. Pr. 1996
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Zusammenfassung:Driving Force unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human among them, executed along the way; led Einstein to the theory of relativity; helped defeat Hitler's U-boats; inspired writers from Plato to Dave Barry
In a way that will delight and instruct even the nonmathematical among us, James Livingston shows us how scientists today are creating magnets and superconductors that can levitate high-speed trains, produce images of our internal organs, steer high-energy particles in giant accelerators, and - last but not least - heat our mourning coffee
Beschreibung:XIV, 311 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:067421644X

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