Spark the life of electricity and the electricity of life
"A fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on Earth. When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices-or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy sky. But electricity is more than...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Sparks Will Fly: Static Electricity
- 2. Shocking Developments: Animal Electricity
- 3. Bolt from the Blue: Lightning
- 4. For All That Ails You: Electrotherapy Machines
- 5. A Circuitous Route: The Battery
- 6. Jolted Back to Reality: Electrocution
- 7. A Field Day: Alternating Current and Lines of Force
- 8. Zombie Fish: Electric Force Fields
- 9. Crookes of the Matter: The Electron
- 10. Redbud: The Neuron
- 11. Zombie People: Voltage-Gated Channels
- 12. The Wanderer: Nerve Fibers
- 13. Crossed Circuits: Neuroprosthetic Limbs
- 14. Sounds of Silence: Sensory Neurological Implants
- 15. Inner Sanctum: The Brain
- 16. Future Shock: Artificial Intelligence.
