How invention begins : echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines

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

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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Main Author: Lienhard, John H., 1930-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Inventions > History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > History.
Inventions
Erfindung
History
Geschichte.
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