Electric Universe : The Shocking True Story of Electricity

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Summary: the pioneers
Review: The famous physicist Richard Feynman once said that the history of the twentieth century could be considered as the application of Maxwell's Equations of Electromagnetism, to good approximation. Indeed. To reinforce that assertion is this narrative from Bodanis. He spans the 19th and 20th centuries, explaining the seminal figures involved in the development of electricity. So that nowadays, its use is all-pervasive in our lives.

You can get an appreciation of the tribulations endured by the early inventors. Who had to scale up from small, bench sized prototypes to structures that could span continents and light up entire cities. Nothing happened easily.

The passages that discuss the electrification also resonate today. Those experiences were similar to the Web enabling access that arose in the 1990s and is still ongoing.