The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life – Arthur Firstenberg

A remarkably well-documented referenced book traces the deployment of electricity in our civilization, in terms of its interaction with living organisms, from its initial discovery in the 1740s all the way to our time, and even projected into the future…It should be noted that the title refers to the entire electromagnetic spectrum comprising the colors of the rainbow, including the invisible frequencies such as radio frequencies and the fields generated around conducting wires. The Invisible Rainbow is divided in two parts, entitled ‘From the Beginning…’ and ‘…To the Present’; roughly corresponding to a description of the history of how electricity became ubiquitous in modern society, interwoven with descriptions of historic experiments of effects of electricity on plants and humans in part 1, and a discussion of health effects on humans and the environment more generally, and their alleged associations with exposure to electricity in more modern times in part 2. There have been no significant improvements in the quality of research in the last 100 years, as the electrical breakthroughs had a halo effect that makes “pioneering ground” difficult to challenge. Little wonder the aftermath – plenty conspiracies since the introduction of electricity in society is still present to this day as the true impact on health from non-ionising radiation is not yet well-known.