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The Engines of Our Ingenuity
An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
Häftad, 2003
341 kr
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Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the …
How Invention Begins
Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines
Häftad, 2008
292 kr
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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. …
Engines of Our Ingenuity
An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
E-bok, 2003
149 kr
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Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard''s radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the …
Inventing Modern
Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins
E-bok, 2003
403 kr
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Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern , John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern . Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, …
How Invention Begins
Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines
E-bok, 2006
96 kr
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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 …
Inventing Modern
Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins
E-bok, 2003
403 kr
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Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern , John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern . Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, …
How Invention Begins
Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines
E-bok, 2006
98 kr
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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 …
