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050	0	0	_aTK2901 _b.S27 2010
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100	1		_aSchlesinger, Henry R. _938773
245	1	4	_aThe battery : _bhow portable power sparked a technological revolution / _cHenry Schlesinger.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_a[Washington, D.C.] : _bSmithsonian Books ; _aNew York : _bHarper, _cc2010.
300			_axi, 308 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
520			_aThe first popular history of the technology which harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of the modern era. Line drawings throughout.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
650		0	_aElectric batteries _xDesign and construction _xHistory. _9152383
650		0	_aStorage batteries _xDesign and construction _xHistory. _9152384
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