TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lienhard,John H.
TI  - How invention begins: echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines
SN  - 019530599X 
AV  - T 15 .L624 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Inventions
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index; 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
ER  -