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Driving force: THE NATURAL MAGIC OF MAGNETS by James D. Livingston is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Driving force: THE NATURAL MAGIC OF MAGNETS about?
Driving Force unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human among them, executed along the way; led Einstein to the theory of relativity; helped defeat Hitler's U-boats; inspired writers from Plato to Dave Barry. In a way that will delight and instruct even the nonmathematical among us, James Livingston shows us how scientists today are creating magnets and superconductors that can levitate high-speed trains, produce images of our internal organs, steer high-energy particles in giant accelerators, and - last but not least - heat our mourning coffee.
Who reads Driving force: THE NATURAL MAGIC OF MAGNETS?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James D. Livingston
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674216457
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Physics, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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