Back on Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell’s book, "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity," from the New Bedford ...

Brett Christophers’s account of the market-induced failure to transition to renewables is his latest entry in a series of books demystifying a multi-pronged global crisis. A figure looks at the ...

A book that details the discovery of electricity and how it has changed our lives has scooped this year's Aventis Prize for popular science writing. The book, Electric Universe - How Electricity ...

‘Give us electricity,” says Peter Owyia, cobbler, “I will double my daily production.” Peter’s calculation was common among the estimated 50 000 shoe, belt, and bag makers in Ariaria market in the ...

After President Eisenhower launched the space race in the late 1950s, there was a national sentiment that capable, average Americans could home-build just about anything. All men needed were good ...