How Invention Begins | Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines

John H. Leinhard

ISBN 10: 0195341201 / ISBN 13: 9780195341201

Published by Oxford University Press, 2008

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How Invention Begins | Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines | John H. Leinhard | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2008 | Oxford University Press | EAN 9780195341201 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Invention Begins | Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195341201
• ISBN 13: 9780195341201
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 16D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 442 grams
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Synopsis

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 applied their combined genius to airplanes, trains, and automobiles, revealing how a collective desire, an upwelling of fascination, a spirit of the times--a Zeitgeist--laid its hold upon inventors. The thing they all sought to create was speed itself. Can we speak of speed as an invention? To do so, he concludes, is certainly no greater a stretch than to call the car an "invention."

About the Author

John H. Lienhard is M.D. Anderson Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and of History at the University of Houston. He is the author and host of "The Engines of Our Ingenuity," a daily radio essay on invention and creativity heard nationally on Public Radio and internationally on the Armed Forces Network. He is also the author of the book The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture.

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The Engines of Our Ingenuity