How invention begins : echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines / / John H. Lienhard.
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 277 p. :; ill. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a How invention begins |h [electronic resource] : |b echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines / |c John H. Lienhard. |
| 260 | |a Oxford ; |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2006. | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 277 p. : |b ill. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Priority and apriority. Otzi 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. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Inventions |x History. | |
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