Spark : the life of electricity and the electricity of life
By Timothy J. Jorgensen
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- Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2021.
- i-xiv+436P.
Preface: current events Sparks will fly: static electricity Shocking developments: animal electricity Bolt from the blue: lightning For all that ails you: electrotherapy machines A circuitous route: the battery Jolted back to reality: electrocution A field day: alternating current and lines of force Zombie fish: electric force fields Crookes of the matter: the electron Redbud: the neutron Zombie people: voltage-gated channels The wanderer: nerve fibers Crossed circuits: neuroprosthetic limbs Sounds of silence: sensory neurological implants Inner sanctum: the brain Future shock: artificial intelligence
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