How dirt, danger and chaos sparked the taming of lightning

(Springer) Death and misfortune were often the spark for engineers and technologists to turn scientific discovery into everyday electronic appliances. Alexander Graham Bell was a specialist teacher of the deaf, while it took many deaths from contaminated food before the first cooling machines were constructed. This book shows how, over a hundred years, a few basic inventions spawned the huge range of electronic devices that have changed the way we live.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news