The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution

by Henry Schlesinger and Henry R. Schlesinger

Book Overview

"Henry Schlesinger is playful and intelligent and obscenely well read." -- Richard Zacks, author of The Pirate Hunter

"Henry Schlesinger's fascinating and superbly researched history of the battery is the story of civilization as we know it." -- Michael Belfiore, author of The Department of Mad Scientists

Henry Schlesinger's The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061442941
• ISBN13: 9780061442940
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"