Bruce J. Hunt
Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein
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- ISBN 13:
- 9780801893582
- author:
- Bruce J. Hunt
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2010
- Pages:
- 192
- Genre:
- Engineering & Technology Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Pursuing Power: A History of Light Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein
This book explores how the leading technologies of the industrial age helped shape modern physics, revealing the close relationship between science and technology during the 19th century.
From the steam engine to telegraphy and electric power and light, Bruce J. Hunt examines how these innovations transformed our understanding of energy, atoms, and electromagnetism, and how they in turn informed scientific discoveries.
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