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The Battery - How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution - cover

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The Battery - How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution

Henry Schlesinger

Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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“Henry Schlesinger is playful and intelligent and obscenely well read.” — Richard Zacks, author of The Pirate Hunter  
"Henry Schlesinger’s fascinating and superbly researched history of the battery is the story of civilization as we know it." — Michael Belfiore, author of The Department of Mad Scientists  
Henry Schlesinger’s The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of our time. If you like Wired Magazine and popular science books, you'll love the "hidden history" of The Battery.
Available since: 03/16/2011.

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