Lo que sí me gusto mucho del libro fueron las historias personales detrás de algunos personajes importantes en la historia de la electricidad. Como Bell inventó el teléfono para poder impresionar a los padres de una chica sorda con la que se quería casar. A parte de qué, gracias a trabajar como profesor para niños sordos, pudo entender como funciona el sonido y conseguir diseñar un altavoz y un micrófono, únicas partes importantes para crear el teléfono después de la invención del telégrafo. Y hablando del telégrafo, menudo personaje «despreciable» que nos era Morse.
El libro da para muchas otras historias, desde Faraday hasta Turing, pasando por Marconi, Watson, Maxwell… y un sin fin de nombres famosos en el mundo del electromagnetismo…
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David Bodanis taught a survey of intellectual history at Oxford for many years and is the author of E=mc2, The Secret House and other books. A native of Chicago, he lives in London. His forthcoming book, Passionate Minds, will be published by Little, Brown in May 2006.
Praise for Electric Universe ‘Hugely impressive. No one makes complex science more fascinating and accessible – and indeed more pleasurable – than David Bodanis’
Bill Bryson ‘A technological odyssey complete with heroes and villains, triumph and tragedy – a true scientific adventure’
Simon Singh, author of Big Bang and Fermat’s Last Theorem ‘Bodanis’s eye for the characters.. produces a compelling fast-paced read’
Observer ‘Bodanis’s greatest gift is telling stories with a passion and vibrant energy that makes you thirst to investigate more once his books are done’
Times Educational Supplement ‘A small book that packs a surprisingly big punch… Bodanis really brings the subject to life, so we’re treated to an enjoyably readable combination of ideas and biography’
Focus ‘David Bodanis wears his immense knowledge lightly. His crystal-clear explanations combine with a flair for narrative and an eagle eye for obscure facts to provide an intriguing account of how the wonders of electricity have transformed our world’
Ross King, author of Brunelleschi’s Dome ‘Bodanis’s book turns its history into a page-turner, mixing cute fact and high concept alike’
Arena ‘Bodanis unpeels these multiple layers of the electric onion expertly; his writing is vigorous and sometimes ecstatic… Electric Universe is high-voltage performance’
Peter Forbes, Daily Mail‘Bodanis has produced an engaging account of the history of electricity, and illustrates not just how much we owe the great minds of the past, but also how much we take its presence for granted now, and will in the future’
Engineer ‘An exciting page-turning read’
Popular Science Review ‘[Bodanis’s] breezy, ofter poetic prose makes even the most complex subjects seem accesible to non-specialist readers’
Economist ‘Electric Universe conveys something close to the secrets of the universe’
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- Regalos recibidos: The Darwin Conspiracy y Electric Universe
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