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Culture, history and society

Culture, history and society

The transformative power of physics and how it has helped to build the modern world

23 Feb 2022
Taken from the February 2022 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "The transformative power of physics".

Joanne O’Meara reviews Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg

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Moments in time The possibly apocryphal story of Benjamin Franklin flying a kite in a thunderstorm provides colourful background to the discovery of electrical induction. (Courtesy: iStock/fergregory)
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Joanne O’Meara is a professor of physics at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, e-mail omeara@uoguelph.ca
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