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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (19 Jan 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0349117667
ISBN-13: 978-0349117669
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Makes you want to learn more, 30 Nov 2006

By	N. J. Stevenson "nategreat" (Leek UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I loved this book and couldn't put it down.It helped me to understand the basics behind radio, radar, computers, nerves in the body, telegraphs and telephones to name but a few. These are things I've always wanted to understand.True at times it doesn't go into very detailed theory but this book is meant to be an overview of electricity and would be difficult to satisfy everyone in one book and it is in no way overly simple. After reading it it has given me the desire to learn even more and I believe it is a great introduction to the subject.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb book, 16 Aug 2007

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Don't be put off by the churlish sniffy purist reviews.It is a book for people who are beginning to be interested in the history of science,not the "experts".It's well-written, accessible, and treats the reader as an intelligent non-specialist human being. Fully deserves the award.The chapter on Alan Turing is brilliantly informative, and very moving.You've got to be a good writer to pull that of.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Superficial and irritating, 17 May 2006

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I am amazed that this book has won the 2006 Aventis prize for popular science writing, as it is fine example of the current tendency for dumbing down. We get a whirlwind journey from Joseph Henry through J. J. Thomson to Alan Turing, but nowhere is there a clear explanation of the physical principles these exceptional scientists discovered, nor how these were applied to solve practical problems. Henry apparently just fooled around with magnets and before you know it, he was a professor at Princeton. There is hope for us all! Thomson built bigger versions of Edison's light bulbs and discovered the electron. Just like that! The writing style also grates, especially where Bodanis skates over describing the underlying science. Have a sick bag to hand when you read the Alexander Bell chapter, with its cheap sentimentality.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
A really well written book, Bodanis doesn't fill it too densely with information but you still learn loads from it, it even made some biology (which I hate) interesting.

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3.0 out of 5 stars a great history of the pioneers of electricity
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