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Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
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Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk

Written by Craig R. Roach

Narrated by Tom Perkins

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Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison, Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete, thrilling, and often-dangerous story of electricity's historic discovery, development, and worldwide application.

Electricity plays a fundamental role not only in our everyday lives but in history's most pivotal events, from global climate change and the push for wind-and solar-generated electricity to Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima and Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Written by electricity expert and four-decade veteran of the industry Craig R. Roach, Simply Electrifying marshals, in fascinating narrative detail, the full range of factors that shaped the electricity business over time-science, technology, law, politics, government regulation, economics, business strategy, and culture-before looking forward toward the exhilarating prospects for electricity generation and use that will shape our future.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 15, 2017
ISBN9781541481978
Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Great book, but some chapters are not complete, to voice ends in the middle of sentence. Nevertheless the book is very good and recommend to read.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I haven't read the book but it fails to mention Nikola Tesla in summary so I'm inclined to dismiss it as it may just be written to catch the eye, not going into substance. Nikola Tesla is mentioned several times in the book so I give it better rating.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    A promo book for sertain historical persons. Don't paint a correct picture of this category.