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Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Smithsonian Series: Great inventions written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Smithsonian Scientific Series: Great inventions, by Charles Greeley Abbot written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 : 9780895990020
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Smithsonian Book of Invention written by Smithsonian Institution and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1978 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history and development of invention and technology from prehistoric times to the present and examines the impact of technology and industry on civilization.
Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698154509
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book How We Got to Now written by Steven Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes—from the French publisher who invented the phonograph before Edison but forgot to include playback, to the Hollywood movie star who helped invent the technology behind Wi-Fi and Bluetooth—How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life. In his trademark style, Johnson examines unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated fields: how the invention of air-conditioning enabled the largest migration of human beings in the history of the species—to cities such as Dubai or Phoenix, which would otherwise be virtually uninhabitable; how pendulum clocks helped trigger the industrial revolution; and how clean water made it possible to manufacture computer chips. Accompanied by a major six-part television series on PBS, How We Got to Now is the story of collaborative networks building the modern world, written in the provocative, informative, and engaging style that has earned Johnson fans around the globe.
Author : Charles Greeley Abbot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Inventions written by Charles Greeley Abbot and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Wisnioski
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262352605
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Does America Need More Innovators? written by Matthew Wisnioski and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation. Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, and workplace cultures for fostering innovation. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation's burdens and rewards. Meanwhile, reformers work to make the training of innovators more inclusive and the outcomes of innovation more responsible. This book offers an overdue critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate by bringing together innovation's champions, critics, and reformers in conversation. The book presents an overview of innovator training, exploring the history, motivations, and philosophies of programs in private industry, universities, and government; offers a primer on critical innovation studies, with essays that historicize, contextualize, and problematize the drive to create innovators; and considers initiatives that seek to reform and reshape what it means to be an innovator. Contributors Errol Arkilic, Catherine Ashcraft, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, W. Bernard Carlson, Lisa D. Cook, Humera Fasihuddin, Maryann Feldman, Erik Fisher, Benoît Godin, Jenn Gustetic, David Guston, Eric S. Hintz, Marie Stettler Kleine, Dutch MacDonald, Mickey McManus, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Natalie Rusk, Andrew L. Russell, Lucinda M. Sanders, Brenda Trinidad, Lee Vinsel, Matthew Wisnioski
Author : Rick Beyer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061626961
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Greatest Science Stories Never Told written by Rick Beyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 tales of invention and discovery to astonish, bewilder, & stupefy Meet the angry undertaker who gave us the push-button phone. Discover how modesty led to the invention of the stethoscope. Find out why Albert Einstein patented a refrigerator. Learn how a train full of trumpeters made science history. Did you know about: The frustrated fashion designer who created the space suit? The gun-toting newspaperman who invented the parking meter? The midnight dreams that led to a Nobel Prize? They're so good, you can't read just one!
Author : Kurt W. Beyer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262517264
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age written by Kurt W. Beyer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers that sparked the information age. A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming. Throughout Hopper's later years, the popular media told this simplified version of her life story. In Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, Kurt Beyer reveals a more authentic Hopper, a vibrant and complex woman whose career paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry. Both rebellious and collaborative, Hopper was influential in male-dominated military and business organizations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework and childbearing. Hopper's greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones and zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming and software design and laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers.
Author : Roger Bridgman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 074403096X
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)
Download or read book 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries written by Roger Bridgman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dip into this illustrated account of key inventions and discoveries, listed year by year, with intriguing facts about each invention and the person (or people) who invented it. From the prehistoric hunting tools our early ancestors used to the modern-day smartphones that connect the entire planet, this book provides a fascinating tour through the history of humankind's inventions and discoveries. Fully revised and updated for 2020, 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries explores recent inventions and discoveries - from the Amazon Echo to the first photograph of a black hole - as well as showcasing revolutionary historical inventions such as the wheel. Whether you're a budding inventor, a history buff, or both, this amazing guide is packed with the inventions and discoveries in science, technology, transport, medicine, and mathematics that changed the course of human existence.
Author : Richard Platt
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9781564586759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions written by Richard Platt and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the first stone tools to satellites and superconductors" - cover.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : London : Mansell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by London : Mansell. This book was released on 1968 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter L. Jakab
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1560987480
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Visions of a Flying Machine written by Peter L. Jakab and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 1997-04-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed book on the Wright Brothers takes the reader straight to the heart of their remarkable achievement, focusing on the technology and offering a clear, concise chronicle of precisely what they accomplished and how they did it. This book deals with the process of the invention of the airplane and how the brothers identified and resolved a range of technical puzzles that others had attempted to solve for a century. Step by step, the book details the path of invention (including the important wind tunnel experiments of 1901) which culminated in the momentous flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the first major milestone in aviation history. Enhanced by original photos, designs, drawings, notebooks, letters and diaries of the Wright Brothers, Visions of a Flying Machine is a fascinating book that will be of interest to engineers, historians, enthusiasts, or anyone interested in the process of invention.
Author : Claire Perry
Publisher : Giles
ISBN 13 : 9781904832973
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Great American Hall of Wonders written by Claire Perry and published by Giles. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report features specific examples where the Battelle name and logo were seen throughout the duration of the show and includes metrics for credit line impressions"--Executive summary
Author : Chris Gall
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780316213301
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Awesome Dawson written by Chris Gall and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVERYTHING CAN BE USED AGAIN! That's Dawson's motto. He collects junk that people throw away and turns it into something STUPENDOUS. But when Dawson uses his skills to create a machine to do his chores for him, he discovers he might have invented something a little too... AWESOME. Can he stop the rampaging robot before it destroys the entire town? Chris Gall inspires kids to reuse, repurpose, and recycle in this inventive adventure about a boy superhero who turns trash into treasures--and saves the world while he's at it!
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465434917
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book 1000 Inventions and Discoveries written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing discoveries and inventions of the last eight years bring this new edition of 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries up to date. Uncover the stories behind 1,000 remarkable inventions and discoveries that have shaped our world, from making fire to the gadgets of the 21st century. This revised and updated edition brings this comprehensive review of humanity's greatest ideas up to date. It is packed with discoveries and innovations in science, space, technology, transportation, medicine, mathematics, and language, along with a history timeline.
Author : Floyd Lavern Darrow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Boy's Own Book of Great Inventions written by Floyd Lavern Darrow and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur P. Molella
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1935623680
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Places of Invention written by Arthur P. Molella and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion book to an upcoming museum exhibition of the same name, Places of Invention seeks to answer timely questions about the nature of invention and innovation: What is it about some places that sparks invention and innovation? Is it simply being at the right place at the right time, or is it more than that? How does “place”—whether physical, social, or cultural—support, constrain, and shape innovation? Why does invention flourish in one spot but struggle in another, even very similar location? In short: Why there? Why then? Places of Invention frames current and historic conversation on the relationship between place and creativity, citing extensive scholarship in the area and two decades of investigation and study from the National Museum of American History’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The book is built around six place case studies: Hartford, CT, late 1800s; Hollywood, CA, 1930s; Medical Alley, MN, 1950s; Bronx, NY,1970s; Silicon Valley, CA, 1970s–1980s; and Fort Collins, CO, 2010s. Interspersed with these case studies are dispatches from three “learning labs” detailing Smithsonian Affiliate museums’ work using Places of Invention as a model for documenting local invention and innovation. Written by exhibition curators, each part of the book focuses on the central thesis that invention is everywhere and fueled by unique combinations of creative people, ready resources, and inspiring surroundings. Like the locations it explores, Places of Invention shows how the history of invention can be a transformative lens for understanding local history and cultivating creativity on scales of place ranging from the personal to the national and beyond.
