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Draw the Lightning Down - Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment (Paperback, New edition)
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Draw the Lightning Down - Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment (Paperback, New edition)
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Most of us know - at least we've heard - that Benjamin Franklin
conducted some kind of electrical experiment with a kite. What few
of us realize - and what this book makes powerfully clear - is that
Franklin played a major role in laying the foundations of modern
electrical science and technology. This fast-paced book, rich with
historical details and anecdotes, brings to life Franklin, the
large international network of scientists and inventors in which he
played a key role, and their amazing inventions. We learn what
these early electrical devices - from lights and motors to musical
and medical instruments - looked like, how they worked, and what
their utilitarian and symbolic meanings were for those who invented
and used them. Against the fascinating panorama of life in the
eighteenth century, Michael Brian Schiffer tells the story of the
very beginnings of our modern electrical world. The earliest
electrical technologies were conceived in the laboratory apparatus
of physicists; because of their surprising and diverse effects,
however, these technologies rapidly made their way into many other
communities and activities. Schiffer conducts us from community to
community, showing how these technologies worked as they were put
to use in public lectures, revolutionary experiments in chemistry
and biology, and medical therapy. This story brings to light the
arcane and long-forgotten inventions that made way for many modern
technologies - including lightning rods (Franklin's invention),
cardiac stimulation, xerography, and the internal combustion engine
- and richly conveys the complex relationships among science,
technology, and culture.
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