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Simply Electrifying: The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison, Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete, thrilling, and often dangerous story of electricity's historic discovery, development, and worldwide application.

Want to know how AT&T's Bell Labs developed semiconductor technology - and how its leading scientists almost came to blows in the process? Want to understand how radio and television work - and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers these stories and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles that all too often took place.

In the preface of this captivating book, the author poses a thought-provoking question how would your life change if all electrical services were to suddenly vanish? As we navigate a world where technology‚Aîfrom communication to entertainment and healthcare‚Aîis woven into the fabric of our daily lives, its fascinating to explore the remarkable advancements in electricity and technology that laid the groundwork for our modern era by the dawn of the 20th century. This book delves into the pioneering achievements of visionaries who introduced innovations such as hydroelectric power, the ...

Despite having attended formal school for only a few months in his childhood, Thomas Alva Edison was nurtured at home by his mother, a former schoolmistress, who instilled in him the foundational skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. With an insatiable curiosity and a relentless spirit, Edison transformed his knowledge and passion for technology into groundbreaking inventions, overcoming challenges and seizing opportunities along the way. This engaging book delves into the remarkable highs and lows of Edisons life, illustrating how he turned adversity into triumph. It covers his ...

The inspiring true story of Loïe Fuller, a radical 19th-century art nouveau icon who turned artificial light into performance art and became the incandescent inventor of modern dance, is revealed in this transportive and hypnotic historical narrative.

Among other things, Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's autobiography captures the essence of his spirit. In it, we can see him as a product of the 18th century enlightenment, a type of Yankee statesman who could use the language of Addison, Steele, Swift, and Defoe. In his autobiography, Franklin asks himself, "Who am I, how did I come to be, and why am I a human being as I am?" And he answers with the honesty, wit, and charm.