Electric universe : how electricity switched on the modern world
Bodanis, David2006
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Four great forces control the universe, and electromagnetism is one of the most powerful of them all. This book takes us from Hamburg cellars during a Second World War firestorm, to the mind of Alan Turing, brilliant computer inventor, hounded by the authorities of the country he'd helped save.
Main title:
Electric universe : how electricity switched on the modern world / David Bodanis.
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Imprint:
London : Abacus, 2006.
Collation:
298 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Crown; London: Little, Brown, 2005.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780349117669 (pbk)0349117667 (pbk)
Dewey class:
537537
Language:
English
BRN:
2091453
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