Driving Force - 9780674216457
Un libro in lingua di Livingston James D. edito da Harvard Univ Pr, 1997
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Driving Force unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human among them, executed along the way; led Einstein to the theory of relativity; helped defeat Hitler's U-boats; inspired writers from Plato to Dave Barry. In a way that will delight and instruct even the nonmathematical among us, James Livingston shows us how scientists today are creating magnets and superconductors that can levitate high-speed trains, produce images of our internal organs, steer high-energy particles in giant accelerators, and--last but not least--heat our morning coffee.
From the "new" science of materials to everyday technology, Driving Force makes the workings of magnets a matter of practical wonder. The book will inform and entertain technical and nontechnical readers alike and will give them a clearer sense of the force behind so much of the working world.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Driving Force
- Sottotitolo: The Natural Magic of Magnets
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Livingston James D.
- Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
- Collana: Harvard Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 25 Aprile '97
- Genere: SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Magnets Magnets Industrial applications
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0674216458
- EAN-13: 9780674216457