Cavendish
Cavendish

Author: Christa Jungnickel

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 844

ISBN-13: 9780838754450

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"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--BOOK JACKET.

Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Author: J. L. Heilbron

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 0520334604

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Draw the Lightning Down
Draw the Lightning Down

Author: Michael Brian Schiffer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006-03-02

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0520248295

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Annotation A lively and entertaining study of early electrical technology, this book brings to life the technologies and inventors--most notably Benjamin Franklin--who forged the way for our modern electrical world.