Dimensions
154 x 234 x 19mm
Electricity is an amazingly powerful force. Communicating through rippling, invisible waves it both connects the stars and races down the nerve-signals in our brains.
'Electric Universe' takes us from the laying of the first telegraph lines to the first use of radio waves; from radar and the Hamburg cellars during a Second World War fire storm to modern mobile phones and lap-top computers.
From Newton and Faraday to James Clerk Maxwell and Alan Turing, exceptional individuals have pushed the boundaries of physics and shaped modernity. Part social history and part biography this is a remarkable history of science - a brilliant, uplifting narrative about how aspiration becomes progress - and is set to propel David Bodanis to the top of the bestseller lists once again.
