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How Electricity Changed the World

✍ Scribed by Bethany Bryan

Book ID: 110714381
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Year: 2018
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 4 MB
Series: Inventions That Changed the World
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781502641069

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Electricity was not the invention of one individual, but the work of many over generations, from civilizations around the world. This book comprehensively covers the invention of electricity, from the cultures that tried to harness the power of lightning over centuries to Benjamin Franklin's tests with a kite and a key, the industrialization of the lightbulb by Thomas Edison, and the use of electric power today. Through sidebars, fact boxes, and colorful photographs, this book highlights the key moments, positive and negatives impacts, and technological innovations relating to one of the most revolutionary technologies today.

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