Draw The Lightning Down
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Draw The Lightning Down
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Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-10-14
Draw The Lightning Down written by Michael Brian Schiffer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-14 with History categories.
Exploring the major role Benjamin Franklin played in laying the foundations of modern electrical science and technology, this text is rich with historical details and anecdotes. The story brings to light the arcane and long-forgotten inventions that made way for many modern technologies.
Brain Electricity
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Author : Robert W. Baloh
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-08-23
Brain Electricity written by Robert W. Baloh and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-23 with Science categories.
This book traces the intertwining story of electricity and neuroscience from ancient times to the late 20th century. Throughout the book, basic concepts of electricity, electromagnetism, and neuroscience are addressed and illustrated. It is replete with remarkable discoveries and colorful characters that dramatically changed human culture. Electricity and neuroscience are topics that have fascinated science historians for centuries. Yet, it has only been over the past several decades that medical science historians have appreciated the close interrelationship of these two topics. Robert Baloh uses a historical context of discovery to provide an ideal framework for understanding modern concepts of electricity and neuroscience. The stories of these pioneering researchers can be inspirational for those beginning a career in neuroscience as well as for more experienced researchers.
Bolt Of Fate
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Author : Tom Tucker
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2009-04-24
Bolt Of Fate written by Tom Tucker and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-24 with History categories.
Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and electricity were one. What many of us do not realize is that Franklin used this breakthrough in his day's intensely competitive field of electrical science to embarrass his French and English rivals. His kite experiment was an international event and the Franklin that it presented to the world -- a homespun, rural philosopher-scientist performing an immensely important and dangerous experiment with a child's toy -- became the Franklin of myth. In fact, this sly presentation on Franklin's part so charmed the French that he became an irresistible celebrity when he traveled there during the American Revolution. The crowds and the journalists, and the ladies, cajoled the French powers into joining us in our fight against the British. What no one has successfully proven until now -- and what few have suggested -- is that Franklin never flew the kite at all. Benjamin Franklin was an enthusiastic hoaxer. And with the electric kite, he performed his greatest hoax. As Tucker shows, it was this trick that may have won the American Revolution.
The Lost History Of The New Madrid Earthquakes
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Author : Conevery Bolton Valencius
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-09-25
The Lost History Of The New Madrid Earthquakes written by Conevery Bolton Valencius and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-25 with History categories.
From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—environmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.
Inward Outward Health
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Author : Deborah Madden
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2012-06-20
Inward Outward Health written by Deborah Madden and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-20 with Religion categories.
Inward and Outward Health is the first interdisciplinary scholarly collection to provide an in-depth and new perspective on the medical and scientific activity of one of the eighteenth century's most successful and controversial theological figures, John Wesley. These essays, written by established scholars in the field, convincingly correct a persistent view of Wesley as an irresponsible religious enthusiast who confused medical science and theology. The reader is given here instead a picture of someone who was a crucial admirer of Enlightenment principles: a deeply pious individual who could minister to the physical and spiritual welfare of the poor, applying remedies for the body or prayer for the soul as and when appropriate.
Popular Mechanics
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983-08
Popular Mechanics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-08 with categories.
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Current State Of The Art Electrical And Security Engineering Design
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Author : Harry Zackrison
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc
Release Date : 2022-11-03
Current State Of The Art Electrical And Security Engineering Design written by Harry Zackrison and has been published by Page Publishing, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
There are three primary goals that this book wishes to achieve: (1) Herein is the most prevalent standardized electrical calculations for use in reducing redundancy in the work effort, reducing repetitive errors, and freeing up more time for productive and innovative and imaginative engineering solutions. (2) Providing a standardized checklist worksheet for field survey work of existing conditions to help facilitate obtaining all the necessary materials the first time around and without errors and omissions. And (2) the maximum security achievable for our highly classified facilities that we are dependent upon for our survival. Four secondary goals we wish to achieve are (1) various methods for conserving energy and resources, (2) the evaluation of life cycle of energy-saving design techniques and equipment selection, (3) the use of a standardized value engineering (VE) guide when performing value engineering workshops, and (4) employing various A and E, VE methods that can be employed for reducing first costs, operating costs, and life cycle costs (LCCs), all the while conserving energy and resources.
The Complete Works Of Benjamin Franklin
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Author : Benjamin Franklin
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2017-11-05
The Complete Works Of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-05 with History categories.
This collection starts first and foremost with Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, one of the most famous and influential autobiographies ever written. The edition includes all the collections of his writings, together with various papers that have been published in separate pamphlets. All the writing are methodically arranged, the moral and philosophical works according to their subjects and the political papers according to their dates. Contents: Autobiography Letters and Papers on Electricity Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects Papers on Subjects of General Politics Papers on American Subjects Before the Revolutionary Troubles Papers on American Subjects During the Revolutionary Troubles Papers, Descriptive of America, or Relating to That Country, Written Subsequent to the Revolution Papers on Moral Subjects and the Economy of Life Letters by Several Eminent Persons, Illustrative of Dr. Franklin's Manners and Character
The Hive
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
The Hive written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with categories.
The Complete Parsina Saga
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Author : Stephen Goldin
language : en
Publisher: Parsina Press
Release Date : 2015-12-05
The Complete Parsina Saga written by Stephen Goldin and has been published by Parsina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-05 with Fiction categories.
The Parsina Saga is an Arabian Nights-style epic fantasy tale, weaving romance and adventure through a world of djinni, undersea cities, flying carpets, and demons. It comprises four complete novels: Shrine of the Desert Mage, The Storyteller and the Jann, Crystals of Air and Water, and Treachery of the Demon King. Now all four of these novels are gathered together in a single boxed set, priced to provide a considerable savings over buying each of the books separately. The complete story appears, unexpurgated, in this one volume. Impoverished storyteller Jafar al-Sharif is mistaken for the thief of a holy urn. He and his daughter Selima escape capture by impersonating mighty wizards--but this imposture brings them into further danger, and sets them on a journey around the world to recapture a lost relic. Meanwhile, the real thief of the urn is in league with the king of the demons to enslave the world under the power of evil. The Parsina Saga is a gripping journey through an exotic world that will keep you on the edge of your seat.