L'ère électrique. The Electric Age

• Auteur principal: Andrea Oberhuber (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Silvestra Mariniello (auth), Olivier Asselin (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2011
• Sujets: innovation; discovery; science; electricity
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The scientific discovery and mastery of electricity created as many important changes in modern society as did the invention of alphabetical writing in antiquity and movable type in the fifteenth century. It is more than a natural phenomenon that science has harnessed for human use; it is a central...