Spark: the life of electricity and the electricity of life
"A fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on Earth. When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices-or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy sky. But electricity is more...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "A fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on Earth. When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices-or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy sky. But electricity is more than an external source of power, heat, or illumination. Life at its essence is nothing if not electrical.The story of how we came to understand electricity's essential role in all life is rooted in our observations of its influences on the body-influences governed by the body's central nervous system. Spark explains the science of electricity from this fresh, biological perspective. Through vivid tales of scientists and individuals-from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk-Timothy Jorgensen shows how our views of electricity and the nervous system evolved in tandem, and how progress in one area enabled advancements in the other. He explains how these developments have allowed us to understand-and replicate-the ways electricity enables the body's essential functions of sight, hearing, touch, and movement itself.Throughout, Jorgensen examines our fascination with electricity and how it can help or harm us. He explores a broad range of topics and events, including the Nobel Prize-winning discoveries of the electron and neuron, the history of experimentation involving electricity's effects on the body, and recent breakthroughs in the use of electricity to treat disease.Filled with gripping adventures in scientific exploration, Spark offers an indispensable look at electricity, how it works, and how it animates our lives from within and without"-- |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
PREFACE:
CURRENT
EVENTS
IX
1
SPARKS
WILL
FLY: STATIC ELECTRICITY
1
2
SHOCKING
DEVELOPMENTS:
ANIMAL
ELECTRICITY 22
3
BOLT
FROM
THE
BLUE:
LIGHTNING
37
4
FOR
ALL
THAT
AILS YOU:
ELECTROTHERAPY
MACHINES
6O
5A
CIRCUITOUS
ROUTE:
THE
BATTERY
87
6
JOLTED
BACK
TO
REALITY:
ELECTROCUTION
1O6
7A
FIELD
DAY:
ALTERNATING CURRENT
AND
LINES
OF
FORCE
134
8
ZOMBIE
FISH:
ELECTRIC
FORCE
FIELDS
162
9
CROOKES
OF
THE
MATTER:
THE
ELECTRON 183
10
REDBUD:
THE
NEURON
205
11
ZOMBIE
PEOPLE:
VOLTAGE-GATED
CHANNELS
225
12
THE
WANDERER:
NERVE
FIBERS
245
13
CROSSED
CIRCUITS:
NEUROPROSTHETIC
LIMBS
267
14
SOUNDS
OF
SILENCE: SENSORY
NEUROLOGICAL
IMPLANTS
293
VII
$IBLIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES MUSEUM
-;
: ..
VIII
CONTENTS
I5
INNER
SANCTUM: THE
BRAIN
I6
FUTURE SHOCK:
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
319
348
369
371
403
415
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CONTENTS
PREFACE:
CURRENT
EVENTS
IX
1
SPARKS
WILL
FLY: STATIC ELECTRICITY
1
2
SHOCKING
DEVELOPMENTS:
ANIMAL
ELECTRICITY 22
3
BOLT
FROM
THE
BLUE:
LIGHTNING
37
4
FOR
ALL
THAT
AILS YOU:
ELECTROTHERAPY
MACHINES
6O
5A
CIRCUITOUS
ROUTE:
THE
BATTERY
87
6
JOLTED
BACK
TO
REALITY:
ELECTROCUTION
1O6
7A
FIELD
DAY:
ALTERNATING CURRENT
AND
LINES
OF
FORCE
134
8
ZOMBIE
FISH:
ELECTRIC
FORCE
FIELDS
162
9
CROOKES
OF
THE
MATTER:
THE
ELECTRON 183
10
REDBUD:
THE
NEURON
205
11
ZOMBIE
PEOPLE:
VOLTAGE-GATED
CHANNELS
225
12
THE
WANDERER:
NERVE
FIBERS
245
13
CROSSED
CIRCUITS:
NEUROPROSTHETIC
LIMBS
267
14
SOUNDS
OF
SILENCE: SENSORY
NEUROLOGICAL
IMPLANTS
293
VII
$IBLIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES MUSEUM
-;
:".
VIII
CONTENTS
I5
INNER
SANCTUM: THE
BRAIN
I6
FUTURE SHOCK:
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
319
348
369
371
403
415 |
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