The History of Electricity & Electronics
1. 
Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
by:
Derek Cheung
4.18 avg rating — 209 ratings 2. 
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
by:
Nancy Forbes
4.27 avg rating — 1,764 ratings 3. 
The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science
by:
Basil Mahon
4.23 avg rating — 71 ratings 
5. 
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by:
Jon Gertner
4.20 avg rating — 8,529 ratings 6. 
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
by:
Tom Standage
3.95 avg rating — 3,526 ratings 7. 
We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age
by:
Bob Johnstone
4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings 
9. 
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World 3.61 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
10. 
The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution 3.63 avg rating — 257 ratings
11. 
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by:
Gretchen Bakke
3.87 avg rating — 4,504 ratings 12. 
The History of Wireless: How Creative Minds Produced Technology for the Masses
by:
Ira Brodsky
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 13. 
14. 
Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy
by:
Seth Fletcher
3.76 avg rating — 245 ratings 15. 
Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series)
by:
Michael Riordan
4.08 avg rating — 212 ratings 16. 
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by:
Jimmy Soni
4.16 avg rating — 2,735 ratings 17. 
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
by:
George Dyson
3.60 avg rating — 4,673 ratings 
19. 
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.12 avg rating — 39,127 ratings 20. 
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
by:
Charles Petzold
4.40 avg rating — 10,332 ratings 
22. 
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
by:
Chris Miller
4.41 avg rating — 36,773 ratings 23. 
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company 4.21 avg rating — 813 ratings
24. 
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
by:
Joel N. Shurkin
3.80 avg rating — 125 ratings 
27. 
Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell
by:
Charlotte Gray
4.32 avg rating — 851 ratings 
29. 
Car Wars: The Rise, the Fall, and the Resurgence of the Electric Car
by:
John J. Fialka
3.80 avg rating — 85 ratings 