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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: ix, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 609 22
LOC classification:
  • T15 .L485 2006eb
Online resources:
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.
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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 609 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

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.

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