Seven Elements that Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery

"Mr. Browne uses his chosen elements to frame a wide-ranging look at scientific progress. It's also a lot of fun."—The Wall Street Journal
The fascinating story of how seven elements—iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium, and silicon—have changed modern life, for good and ill.
With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant. Uranium is both productive (nuclear power) and destructive (…