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Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets (1st Edition) by James D. Livingston Paperback, 334 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-674-21645-8 / 0674216458 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-21645-7 / 9780674216457 "Driving Force" unfolds the long and colorful history of magnets: how they guided (or misguided) Columbus; mesmerized eighteenth-century Paris but failed to fool Benjamin Franklin; lifted AC power over its rival, DC, despite all the animals, one human among them, executed along the way; led Einstein |