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1694472 McNichol, Tom:
AC/DC
 The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
 Preis:   € 21,90

Einband: Gb
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Seiten: 208 S.

ISBN-10: 0-7879-8267-9   
ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-8267-6

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Beschreibung
Praise for AC/DC
"You'll never look at your wall socket the same again."
--Evan Ratliff, coauthor, Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World
"From the twisted copper wires of electricity's early years McNichol spins a story buzzing with genius and fraud, ambition and infamy, hilarity and humiliation. It's a joy to read: a comic operetta of American industrial history, full of great men, small minds and an alarming number of dead dogs."
--Craig Stoltz, health editor, Washington Post
"Few writers explain technology as well as Tom McNichol. No one's as good at finding the humor in it."
--Jeffrey O'Brien, senior editor, Wired magazine
"A fascinating history of the battle that decided what comes through the wires when we flick a switch. A great story of how far people will go to prove they're 'right' - and make a buck."
--J. J. Yore, executive producer, public radio's Marketplace
"A tale of astonishing genius and greed, a perfect reflection of the competing forces that built corporate America. McNichol offers us a ringside seat at the birth of a superpower, and it's a bloody, messy, and altogether fascinating spectacle."
--Brooke Gladstone, cohost, NPR's On the Media
Inhalt
Prologue Negative and Positive.
1 First Sparks.
2 Lightning in a Bottle.
3 Enter the Wizard.
4 Let There Be Light.
5 Electrifying the Big Apple.
6 Tesla.
7 The Animal Experiments.
8 Old Sparky.
9 Pulse of the World.
10 Killing an Elephant.
11 Twilight by Battery Power.
12 DC's Revenge.
Epilogue Standards Wars: Past, Present, and Future.
Further Readings in Electricity.
The Author.
Index.
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