How invention begins: echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines
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Main Author: Lienhard, John H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index
Priority and apriority. Ötzi and silent beginnings -- The unrelenting presence of priority -- I built my airplane before the Wright brothers did -- Steam and speed. Inventing steam: "Alles was Odem hat" -- From steam to steam engine -- From steam engine to thermodynamics -- Inventing speed -- Inventive motivation and exponential change -- Writing and showing. Inventing Gutenberg -- From Gutenberg to a newly literate world: gestation to cradle to maturation -- Inventing means for illustrating reality -- Fast presses, cheap books, and ghosts of old readers -- Views through a wider lens. Inventing education: the great equalizer -- The arc of invention: finding finished forms
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 277 p.)
ISBN:1429420545
9781429420549

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