Electricity 101

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Amber and Fur
3. Chapter Two - The Electric Fish
4. Chapter Three - Magnetism and Mystery
5. Chapter Four - The First Sparks
6. Chapter Five - Franklin’s Shock Value
7. Chapter Six - Galvani’s Frog
8. Chapter Seven - Volta Makes a Stack
9. Chapter Eight - The Circuit Awakens
10. Chapter Nine - Faraday Spins the Field
11. Chapter Ten - The Maxwell Equations
12. Chapter Eleven - The War of Currents
13. Chapter Twelve - The Grid Is Born
14. Chapter Thirteen - Lighting the World
15. Chapter Fourteen - The Telegraph Wires the Earth
16. Chapter Fifteen - Electrons and the Atom
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Radio and the Air
18. Chapter Seventeen - The Age of Electronics

Excerpt

PROLOGUE YOU USE IT all day, every day. Flip a switch, plug something in, press a button, and boom. Electricity. But most people have no idea what it actually is. Where it came from. Who figured it out. Or how the hell we went from rubbing amber with fur to running a global internet out of the air. This book is not about memorizing names and inventions. It’s not a science class recap. It’s the real story of how humans slowly, painfully, accidentally figured out how to mess with one of the weirdest forces in nature. It was always here. Lightning, eels, magnet rocks, weird static zaps in the winter, it just took us thousands of years to realize those were all connected. And once we did? Game...