Simply Electrifying
The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk

Thank you to the publishers for providing an ARC of the book through NetGalley. This was a really interesting overview of the various people and technology who have 'transformed' electricity. I particularly liked the earlier scientists; Franklin, Tesla, Edison to the more modern scientists and busine......more

Review title: How we got here, how to get to next I recently read Niall Ferguson's The Tower and the Square where he lays out the history of the world since the printing press as a transition between hierarchies (the Tower) and networks (the Square). While he focused on political, dynastic, religious......more

I was first drawn to the simply electrifying title - I have always had a soft spot for Nikola Tesla and the science behind electricity which is so everyday today. The first few parts were the most interesting for me: we followed through the history of how such science was developed, from Benjamin Fr......more

"Simply Electrifying" is a history of electricity for the average person. Anything technical regarding an invention, experiment, or scientific idea was explained in simple terms. It was mostly a collection of biographies of people who made a major impact on the history of electricity and how we use......more

The initial part where the author talks about the developments of electricity is very well done. Once he gets into politics the book becomes an entirely different animal altogether. The book is pretty recent too, so it talks about events like the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster and Enron's Collapse......more