Spark from the Deep : How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery.
Material type: TextSeries: Animals History Culture SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013Copyright date: �2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781421409948Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spark from the DeepDDC classification: 597 LOC classification: QL639.1.T87 2013ebOnline resources: Click to ViewCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Strongly Electric Fish -- 2 Modeling Animal Electricity -- 3 Electrophysiology -- 4 The Spark of Life -- 5 Evolutionary Theories -- 6 Electric Currents -- 7 Discovering Electric Worlds -- Conclusion Nothing but a Movement of Electrons -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Now we look to these fish as an inspiration for engineering new sensors, computer interfaces, autonomous undersea robots, and energy-efficient batteries.
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