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Author:

Hunt, Bruce J.

Title:

Pursuing power and light : technology and physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein / Bruce J. Hunt.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

182 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Technological innovations--History--19th century.
Technological innovations--History--20th century.
Research--History--19th century.
Research--History--20th century.
Physical sciences--History--History--19th century.
Physical sciences--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176) and index.

Summary:

This period marked a watershed in how human beings exerted power over the world around them. Sweeping changes in manufacturing, transportation, and communications transformed the economy, society, and daily life in ways never before imagined. At the same time, physical scientists made great strides in the study of energy, atoms, and electromagnetism. Hunt shows how technology informed science and vice versa, examining the interaction between steam technology and the formulation of the laws of thermodynamics, for example, and that between telegraphy and the rise of electrical science.

Series:

Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science.

ISBN:

0801893585 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801893582 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801893593 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801893599 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)344061957

LCCN:

2009020235

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)