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Saturday, April 16, 2005
BOOK REVIEW: ELECTRIC UNIVERSE * * 1/2 (2 and a half stars out of 4).
External link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400045509/qid=1113664930/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-9610666-0600944?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity by David Bodanis is a nice mix of both science and history and biography, and I liked it. It is impossible to overstate the importance of harnessing electricity in influencing the history of the world, and yet I have seldom seen electricity discussed from an historical perspective, presumably because historians aren't generally all that interested in science.
The book does a decent job of explaining the science behind modern inventions, but I feel the explanation could have been much deeper, to the point where you'd be able to build your own light bulb or telephone. And it failed to discuss television, which I think is probably the most important invention of the 20th century, in terms of influencing history. And it was a little dry in places. But I did like it overall, and I recommend it.
link to this item: http://www.creamy.com/blog/2005/04/book-review-electric-universe-12-2-and.html
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