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Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science) (10th Edition) by Bruce J. Hunt Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-8018-9359-3 / 0801893593 ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9359-9 / 9780801893599 In the nineteenth century, science and technology developed a close and continuing relationship. The most important advancements in physics -- the science of energy and the theory of the electromagnetic field -- were deeply rooted in the new technologies of the steam engine, the telegraph, and elect |