Machinery of the Brain

by Dean E. Wooldridge

Book Overview

Cover scuffed through use..Softback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in fair to good all-round condition, ,252pages. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070718415
• ISBN13: 9780070718418
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Book Review: Machinery of the Brain

Read this little book in 1963 as a young nuclear engineer. Wooldridge (of Thomson, Ramo, Wooldridge) takes a complex subject and, sitting on the beach in Hawaii, simplifies it for pedestrian understanding. E.g., we all know nerve cells command our muscles, but Wooldridge explains that the signal is a stream of pulses, conveyed as a wave front where the ratio of sodium to potassium changes. Learn how cats see! Delighted to find this source to replace my copy lost so long ago.