عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
T15 .L485 2006eb
T15
.
L485
2006eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
019530599X
(Number (ISBN
0198041721
(Number (ISBN
1280846518
(Number (ISBN
1429420545
(Number (ISBN
9780195305999
(Number (ISBN
9780198041726
(Number (ISBN
9781280846519
(Number (ISBN
9781429420549
Erroneous ISBN
019530599X
Erroneous ISBN
0195341201
Erroneous ISBN
9780195305999
Erroneous ISBN
9780195341201
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b710589
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
How invention begins :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines /
First Statement of Responsibility
John H. Lienhard.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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. They are not invention itself. 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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
How invention begins.
International Standard Book Number
9780195305999
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Inventions-- History.
Erfindung
Inventions.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- History.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
PDX
TEC-- 056000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
609
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
T15
Book number
.
L485
2006eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Lienhard, John H.,1930-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201208012357.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
pn
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
