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 Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery by a
master science writer.
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