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Livingston, James D.

 
9780674216457: Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets
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ISBN 10: 0674216458 ISBN 13: 9780674216457
Editorial: Harvard University Press, 1997

Sinopsis

Driving Force unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human among them, executed along the way; led Einstein to the theory of relativity; helped defeat Hitler's U-boats; inspired writers from Plato to Dave Barry. In a way that will delight and instruct even the nonmathematical among us, James Livingston shows us how scientists today are creating magnets and superconductors that can levitate high-speed trains, produce images of our internal organs, steer high-energy particles in giant accelerators, and--last but not least--heat our morning coffee.

From the "new" science of materials to everyday technology, Driving Force makes the workings of magnets a matter of practical wonder. The book will inform and entertain technical and nontechnical readers alike and will give them a clearer sense of the force behind so much of the working world.

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Acerca del autor

James D. Livingston is a former physicist at General Electric and lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Driving Force unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets and makes their workings a matter of practical wonder.

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Editorial
Harvard University Press
Año de publicación
1997
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ISBN 10 
0674216458
ISBN 13 
9780674216457
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Número de páginas
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