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Spark from the Deep:

How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered ScientificDiscovery
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Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered electrical discharges.William J. Turkel asks completely fresh questions about the evolutionary, environmental, and historical aspects of peoples interest in electric fish. Stimulated by painful encounters with electric catfish, torpedos, and electric eels, people learned to harness the power of electric shock for medical therapies and eventually developed technologies to store, transmit, and control electricity. Now we look to these fish as an inspiration for engineering new sensors, computer interfaces, autonomous undersea robots, and energy-efficient batteries.

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

""[I]t is refreshing to explore a book which takes seriously ancient encounters with manifestations of natural electricity as precursors to more recent innovations.""

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