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Hunt translates his often-demanding material into engaging and accessible language suitable for undergraduate students of the history of science and technology.

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Highly recommended. Choice 2010 Pursuing Power and Light is the best and most up-to-date treatment, especially for undergraduates, of the key concepts and figures of 19th-century physics. -- Robert Friedel Physics Today 2011 Essential reading both for students in engineering and the sciences and for those in HPS departments... enjoyable and very interesting reading. -- Stathis Arapostathis Metascience 2011

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A World Transformed
1. Steam and Work
2. Energy and Entropy
3. The Kinetic Theory: Chaos and Order
4. Electricity: Currents and Networks
5. Electromagnetism: Ether and Field
6. Electric Power and Light
7. Into a New Century
Epilogue: Einstein at the Patent Office
Suggested Further Reading
Index

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/06/2010
      ISBN13: 9780801893599, 978-0801893599
      ISBN10: 0801893593

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Hunt translates his often-demanding material into engaging and accessible language suitable for undergraduate students of the history of science and technology.

      Trade Review
      Highly recommended. Choice 2010 Pursuing Power and Light is the best and most up-to-date treatment, especially for undergraduates, of the key concepts and figures of 19th-century physics. -- Robert Friedel Physics Today 2011 Essential reading both for students in engineering and the sciences and for those in HPS departments... enjoyable and very interesting reading. -- Stathis Arapostathis Metascience 2011

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: A World Transformed
      1. Steam and Work
      2. Energy and Entropy
      3. The Kinetic Theory: Chaos and Order
      4. Electricity: Currents and Networks
      5. Electromagnetism: Ether and Field
      6. Electric Power and Light
      7. Into a New Century
      Epilogue: Einstein at the Patent Office
      Suggested Further Reading
      Index

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