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作者： David Bodanis 著

出 版 社： 武汉大学出版社

出版时间： 2006-2-1字数：版次： 1页数： 308印刷时间：开本： 32开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9780307335982包装： 平装编辑推荐

作者简介：DAVID BODANIS taught a survey of intellectual history at the University of Oxford for many years. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling E=mc2, which was translated into twenty languages, and The Secret House. A native of Chicago, he lives in London, England.

内容简介

In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets of electricity come vividly to life, including familiar giants like Thomas Edison; the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system; and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality.

目录

INTRODUCTION

PART I WIRES

1. The Frontiersman and the Dandy

2. Aleck and Mabel

3, Thomas and J.J.

PART II WAVES

4. Faraday's God

5. Atlantic Storms

PART III WAVE MACHINES

6. A Solitary Man

Z Power in the Air

8. Power Unleashed

PART IV A COMPUTER BUILT OF ROCK

9. Turing

10. Turing's Legacy

PART V THE BRAIN AND BEYOND

11. Wet Electricity

12. Electric Moods

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT

MR. AMP MR. VOLT AND MR. WATT

NOTES

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

 

 

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