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In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets of electricity come vividly to life, including familiar giants like Thomas Edison the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality.
From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universeis a mesmerizing journey of discovery by a master science writer.
Introduction
Wires
The Frontiersman and the Dandy. Albany, 1830, and Washington, D.C., 1836
Aleck and Mabel.
Thomas and J.J. New York, 1878
Waves
Faraday’s God. London, 1831
Atlantic Storms. HMS Agamemnon, 1858, and Scotland, 1861
Wave machines
A Solitary Man. Karlsruhe, Germany, 1887
Power in the Air. Suffolk Coast, 1939, and Bruneval, France, 1942
Power Unleashed. Hamburg, 1943
A computer built of rock
Turing. Cambridge, 1936, and Bletchley Park, 1942
Turing’s Legacy. New Jersey, 1947
The brain and beyond
Wet Electricity. Plymouth, England, 1947
Electric Moods. Indianapolis, 1972, and Today
What happened next
Mr. Amp, Mr. Volt, and Mr. Watt
Notes
Guide to further reading
Acknowledgments
About the author