He addresses how we learned from such challenges, mastered their transitions, and capitalized on their opportunities. In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy.
Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges.
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time-wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.
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