Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets - Couverture souple

Livingston

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674216458 ISBN 13 : 9780674216457

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674216458
• ISBN 13: 9780674216457
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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