The spinning magnet : the force that created the modern world and could destroy it / Alanna Mitchell.
The fascinating history of electromagnetism and how, in the not-so-distant future, the Earth's poles will switch places - with potentially catastrophic results.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670070190
- Physical Description: ix, 323 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Viking, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. I Magnet -- ch. 1 Beginnings of Things -- ch. 2 Unpaired Spinning Electron -- ch. 3 Parking in the Shadow of Magnetism's Forgotten Man -- ch. 4 Into Whose Embrace Iron Leaps -- ch. 5 Revolutions on Paper -- ch. 6 Earth's Magnetic Soul -- ch. 7 Voyage into the Underworld -- ch. 8 Greatest Scientific Undertaking the World Had Ever Seen -- ch. 9 Rock That Turned the World Upside Down -- pt. II Current -- ch. 10 Experiment in Copenhagen -- ch. 11 Very Intimate Relationship -- ch. 12 Jars Full of Lightning -- ch. 13 Apothecary's Son -- ch. 14 Bookbinder's Apprentice -- ch. 15 Magnets Making Currents -- ch. 16 Lines That Fill the Air -- pt. III Core -- ch. 17 Contorting Gyre -- ch. 18 Shocks Inside the Earth -- ch. 19 Pharaohs, Fairies, and a Tar-Paper Shack -- ch. 20 Zebra Skins Under the Sea -- ch. 21 At the Outer Edge of the Dynamo -- ch. 22 Anomaly to the South -- ch. 23 Worst Physics Movie Ever -- ch. 24 Great Hazardous Spinning Sphere of Sodium -- pt. IV Switch -- ch. 25 Looking Up -- ch. 26 Horrors the Lights Foretold -- ch. 27 Lethal Patches -- ch. 28 Cost of Catastrophe -- ch. 29 Trout Noses and Pigeon Beaks -- ch. 30 Suit of Stiff Black Crayon. |
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