How invention begins : echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.