311 pp. Light edgewear. Appears unread. A fascinating book about magnets and magnetism, coverinng everything from the science of magnetic forces to debunking the claims that magnets will improve your wine and sexual prowess. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

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Titolo: Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets
Editore: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Ma, U. S. A.
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
ISBN 10: 0674216458
ISBN 13: 9780674216457
Rilegatura: Softcover
Edizione: Sixth Printing.
Condizione: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

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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 morning coffee.

From the "new" science of materials to everyday technology, Driving Force makes the workings of magnets a matter of practical wonder. The book will inform and entertain technical and nontechnical readers alike and will give them a clearer sense of the force behind so much of the working world.

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