TY - BOOK ID - 101697750 TI - The Battery : How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution PY - 2010 SN - 9780061985294 PB - New York, NY : HarperCollins, DB - UniCat KW - Electric Batteries KW - Storage Batteries KW - Technology & Engineering KW - Electric batteries KW - Storage batteries KW - Design and construction KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101697750 AB - "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. ER -