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A New Understanding of The Atom MP3 Audiobook
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A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE ATOM
by Professor John T. Sanders
read by Edwin Newman
Non-Fiction • Unabridged
Book ID(3991) – 3.1 hrs (est.), Published – 10/01/06
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The Science and Discovery Series
Einstein overthrew Newtonian physics but like Newton he still believed that physical events have definite causes. Then Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, joined others in describing a strange new world of uncertainty and mystery. Quantum mechanics has intrigued and confounded many by joining keen insights with apparent contradictions and indeterminacy. Quantum theory also was later used to create semiconductors, the technology of the computer revolution.
The Science and Discovery Series recreates one of history’s most successful journeys—four thousand years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.
Edison MP3 Audiobook
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EDISON
by Paul Israel
read by Raymond Todd
Biography • Unabridged
Book ID(2593) – 21.6 hrs (est.), Published – 07/01/00
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Subtitle: A Life of Invention
The conventional story of Thomas Edison reads more like myth than history: with only three months of formal education, a hardworking young man overcomes the odds to become one of the greatest inventors in history. In this peerless biography, Paul Israel exposes the man behind the inventions, expertly situating his subject within a thoroughly realized portrait of a burgeoning country on the brink of massive change. For the first time, much attention is devoted to Edison’s early family life, where the young man honed his entrepreneurial sense and eye for innovation as editor of a weekly newspaper. Armed with unprecedented access to Edison’s workshop diaries, notebooks, and letters, Israel brings fresh insight into how the inventor’s creative mind worked, brightening the unexamined corners of his triumphant career in science.
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“Israel has done a remarkable job. Not only has he given us fresh insights into a complex personality, but he has set this against the backdrop of a dramatically changing American society driven on remorselessly by the second Industrial Revolution, in which Edison was a pivotal player.”—Nature
“Israel’s book should go a long way toward taking Edison out of the shadows and placing him in the proper light.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“An authoritative look into Edison’s working methods, here leavened by enough personal detail to give the achievements shape.”—Publishers Weekly
PAUL ISRAEL is the managing editor of a multi-volume documentary edition of the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University and the co-author of Edison’s Electric Light. He holds a Ph.D. in the history of technology. He lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.
AC/DC MP3 Audiobook
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AC/DC
by Tom McNichol
read by Malcolm Hillgartner
Non-Fiction • Unabridged
Book ID(4774) – 6.8 hrs (est.), Published – 05/01/08
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Subtitle: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
Long before there was VHS versus Betamax, Windows versus Macintosh, or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the first and nastiest standards war was fought over how electricity would be transmitted around the world: alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC). The savage showdown between AC and DC changed the lives of billions of people, shaped the modern technological age, and set the stage for all standards wars to follow.
AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison bet wrong in that war, eventually losing control over the “operating system” for his future inventions—not to mention the company he founded, which would later become General Electric.Today’s Digital Age wizards can take lessons from Edison’s fierce battle: control an invention’s technical standard and you control the market.
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“Though a battle over electrical standards sounds dry, this tale is anything but….[The] book tantalizingly scratches the surface of Edison’s ingenuity and force of will, Westinghouse’s shrewd business sense, and most of all the sheer eccentricity of Nikola Tesla.”—Publishers Weekly
“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
“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
TOM MCNICHOL is a contributing editor to Wired magazine, a highly regarded writer on technology and business, and a regular contributor to the New York Times and Washington Post. He has recorded segments for the public radio shows Marketplace and All Things Considered.
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