Title: Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 142140981X
ISBN 13: 9781421409818
Binding: Hardcover, illus.
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New

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How encounters with strongly electric fish informed our grasp of electricity.

Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered electrical discharges.

William J. Turkel asks completely fresh questions about the evolutionary, environmental, and historical aspects of people’s interest in electric fish. Stimulated by painful encounters with electric catfish, torpedos, and electric eels, people learned to harness the power of electric shock for medical therapies and eventually developed technologies to store, transmit, and control electricity. Now we look to these fish as an inspiration for engineering new sensors, computer interfaces, autonomous undersea robots, and energy-efficient batteries.

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William J. Turkel is an associate professor of history at the University of Western Ontario and is author of The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau.

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