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9780195071702

Inventive Minds Creativity in Technology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195071702

  • ISBN10:

    0195071700

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-11-26
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This unique book explores the process of invention and what settings, conditions, and strategies appear to foster inventive activity. Historical examples include Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, and more.

Table of Contents

Setting the Stage
Perspiration in Perspective: Changing Perceptions of Genius and Expertise in American Invention
Classic Inventors
Inventing the Field: Michael Faraday and the Creative "Engineering" of Electromagnetic Field Theory
A Cognitive Framework to Understand Technological Creativity: Bell, Edison, and the Telephone
Why Wilbur and Orville? Some Thoughts on the Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention
Contemporary Inventors
Electron Microscopy and Microprobe Analysis: Recalling the Ambience of Some Inventions
The Origin of Soft Tissue Ultrasonic and Early Instrumental Application to Clinical Medicine
The Soil Biotron: An Underground Research Laboratory
The Synthesis of Diamonds
The Origin and Development of the First Zeolite Catalyst for Petroleum Cracking, Edward Rosinski
Discovery and Invention in Polymer Chemistry
The Genesis of the Antiparasitic Drug Ivermectin
The Logic of Invention
Stone Age Knife to Swiss Army Knife: An Invention Prototype
The Topography of Invention
The Analytic Inventive Thinking Model
The Social Context of Inventions
Invention in the Industrial Research Laboratory: Individual Act or Collective Process? The Case of the Pioneering Research Laboratory, Du Pont Fibers Department, 1928-1968
Inventors and Corporations in the Maturing Electrical Industry
Technology on the Move
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