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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1. Verfasser: Lienhard, John H., 1930-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.
ISBN:1429420545
9781429420549
9780198041726
0198041721
1280846518
9781280846519
019530599X
9780195305999

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