Energy : a human history /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xiv, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 1501105353
- 9781501105357
- 333.7909 23
- TJ163.2 .R498 2018
- TJ163.2 .R56 2018
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NF | Chamberlin Free Public Library | Nonfiction | 333.79 RHO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34480000569677 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-397) and index.
Part 1. Power. No wood, no kingdom ; Raising water by fire ; A giant with one idea ; To make for all the world ; Catch me who can ; Unconquered steam! -- Part 2. Light. Rushlight to gaslight ; Pursuing Leviathan ; Burning fluids ; Wild animals ; Great forces of nature ; A cadence of water ; An enormous yellow cheese ; Pillars of black cloud -- Part 3. New fires. A gift of God ; One-armed men doing welding ; Full power in fifty-seven ; Affection from the smog ; The dark age to come ; All aboard.
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