Absolute zero and the conquest of cold: And The Conquest Of Cold
Science and technology, Physics
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Historical survey of western scientists' efforts to control cold. Discusses Boyle's experiments in the seventeenth century, the invention of the sealed glass thermometer, the work of Fahrenheit and Celsius, the discovery of refrigeration, twentieth-century research on attaining absolute zero, and related topics of superconductivity and superfluidity. 1999.
Title Details
ISBN
9780395938881
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Copyright Date
1999
Book number
2381056
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Mark Ashby
Duration
7 hours 59 minutes 47 seconds
Audio producer
Potomac Talking Book Services