How invention begins [electronic resource] : echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines / John H. Lienhard.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lienhard, John H., 1930-
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Inventions > History.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2008 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2006 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2006 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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.