Being a loser who sucks at science, I thought this was a cool, captivating introduction to electricity and its history. Tbh, I think I’m unreliable when it comes to defining how accurate the content is, but it was an interesting and quick read for me personally.

I love the backstory behind all these electric scientific achievements. The trans-Atlantic cable is extremely interesting, setbacks notwithstanding, and I could go on about the importance of good coaxial cable... but I won't.
DO enjoy this book.
I would definitely read again.

كتاب ممتع و مفيد، ينير العقول، فيه رحلة عن تطور استخدام الكهرباء خلال المائتين سنة الماضيتين، و أجمل ما فيه هو أنه يؤكد على أهمية المثاربة و الطموح و ان الحضارة البشرية هي ثمرة جهود متواصلة لمئات السنين؛ فكل عالم استفاد ممن سبقوه و أفاد من لحقوه، ولولا هذا لكان وضعا اقل بكثير مما هو عليه الآن، و كما قيل من قبل كرد على سؤال : لماذا الانسان هو افضل المخلوقات على وجه الأرض؟ و كانت الاجابة لأنه الكائن الوحيد الذي له تاريخ

I'm a dummy when it comes to science, but even this felt lightweight to me. After reading a biography of Tesla, I wanted to know all about the development of electricity. Those beginning days of electricity feel more like magic than science. The idea of being able to harness weird sparky hot lightning stuff that comes out of the sky but also lives in pretty much everything... that's pretty cool. But this book makes it feel commonplace.

Rather than go into the science, this book wants to tell a story: the narrative of how electricity became integral to our world. And that's a good goal for a book to have, but it was just so blah. The narrative arc was cut up piecemeal so there wasn't a sense of this led to this which led to this. Instead, the feeling is that there was a scientist who did this thing and then there was another scientist who did this other, unrelated thing.

Anyway, skip this book. It's just nothing special.