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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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 1429420545 9781429420549 9780198041726 0198041721 1280846518 9781280846519 019530599X 9780195305999 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. They are not invention itself. In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index. |
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