[Read free ebook] How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines
♛ John H. Lienhard ♛
| #2230773 in Books | Leinhard John H | 2008-06-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x.90 x9.20l,.90 | File Name: 0195341201 | 288 pages | How Invention Begins Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The collective consciousness of engineers lead to inventions|By Ron George|This book reminds of the British TV series CONNECTIONS, because the truth behind so many inventions in pre and post Industrial Revolution era is that they were a product of many hundreds of years of conscious development, failures, evolution and improvements, sharing/borrowing or even robbery of ideas.|From Publishers Weekly|Lienhard is enthralled with invention, how it happens and how inventions both shape and are shaped by culture. He posits that the quest for a single canonical inventor of a new technology is illusory, because all inventions are the sum of
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 inventive genius to airplanes, railroad engines, and automobiles. As he does so, it becomes clear that a collective desire, an upwelling of fascination, a spirit of the ti...
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