How Did We Find Out About Electricity Author:Isaac Asimov, Matthew Kalmenoff We push a button and the light goes on. Electricity flows through the wires. But it took hundreds of years to find out about this form of energy. Isaac Asimov tells the history of electricity from the early Greek philosophers to Volta's battery and Faraday's electro-magnetism in a concise, simply written, authoritative text. Bold black-and-white... more » illustrations dramatically emphasize each step.« less