To light such a candle : chapters in the history of science and technology /
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Science and technology
- James Watt and the science of thermodynamics
- Daguerre, Talbot, and the legacy of photography
- Michael Faraday and electric power
- James Clark Maxwell and radio transmission
- J.J. Thomson and the electronic age
- The Braggs and molecular architecture
- Planck, Einstein, the quantum theory, and relativity
- Scientists, science, and society.