How invention begins : echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines /
Invention--that single leap of a human mind that gives us all we create. Yet we make a mistake when we call a telephone or a light bulb an invention, says John Lienhard. In truth, light bulbs, airplanes, steam engines--these objects are the end results, the fruits, of vast aggregates of invention. T...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| ISBN: | 1429420545 9781429420549 9780198041726 0198041721 1280846518 9781280846519 019530599X 9780195305999 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |