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Author Berman, Bob, author.

Title Zapped : from infrared to X-rays, the curious history of invisible light / Bob Berman.

Publisher New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Auburn PL Nonfiction Stacks  QC 355.3 .B44 2017    AVAILABLE  
 Curtis ML Adult Non Fiction  535.09 Berman zap 2017    AVAILABLE  
 LewPL Nonfiction  535 B516z    AVAILABLE  
 Lithgow PL Non Fiction  535 BER    AVAILABLE  
 Northeast HL Nonfiction  539.2 BER    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition.
Physical Description vi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents Light fantastic -- Now you see it, now you don't -- The green planet and the red heat -- Hot rays -- Ultraviolet brings the blues -- Danger beyond the violet -- Energy rhythms -- The exploding sun -- No soap -- Turning on and tuning in -- The speed that destroyed space and time -- Microwaves everywhere -- The man with the x-ray vision -- Röntgen rays for everyone -- What's in your basement? -- The atomic quartet -- Gamma rays: the impossible light -- Cell-phone radiation -- Cosmic rays -- Beams from the universe's birth -- Energy from our minds -- Ray guns -- The next frontier: zero-point and dark energies -- Total solar eclipse: when the rays stop -- ET's may be broadcasting, but what's their number? -- Does light have a bright future?
Summary The story of all the light we cannot see, tracing microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, and other forms of radiation from their historic, world-altering discoveries in the nineteenth century to their central role in modern life.
Subject Light -- History.
Optics -- History
Radiation -- History.
Light -- Philosophy.
Local Special Collection Cornerstones of Science (Brunswick, Me.)