Spark from the Deep - How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery
by William J. Turkel
Johns Hopkins University Press | July 2013 | ISBN-10: 142140981X | True PDF | 304 pages | 17 mb 
https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Deep-Experiments-Scientific-Discovery/dp/142140981X

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 people’s 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.

About the Author 
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William J. Turkel did his PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2004. He is currently Associate Professor at University Of Western Ontario. His research interests include computational history, Big History, STS, physical computing, desktop fabrication and electronics. 

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Strongly Electric Fish 7
2 Modeling Animal Electricity 36
3 Electrophysiology 65
4 The Spark of Life 93
5 Evolutionary Theories 123
6 Electric Currents 149
7 Discovering Electric Worlds 178
Conclusion. Nothing but a Movement of Electrons 206
Notes 215
Bibliography 237
Index 277