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Energy : a human history /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xiv, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1501105353
  • 9781501105357
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 333.7909 23
LOC classification:
  • TJ163.2 .R498 2018
  • TJ163.2 .R56 2018
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
NF 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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