Eureka
Subtitle: how invention happens
By: Gavin Weightman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780300192087
Subjects: History; Technological innovations; Creative ability in technology; Inventions; Discoveries in science; Technology; Biography; Inventors
Description: While the discoveries of scientists have provided vital knowledge which has made innovation possible, it is more often than not the amateur who enjoys the "eureka moment" when an invention works for the first time. Weightman tells fascinating stories of struggle, rivalry, and the ingenuity of both famous inventors and hundreds of forgotten people, and offers a fresh take on the making of our modern world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: The bird men; title: Seeing with electricity; title: Written in the sand; title: Homebrewed; title: Hard cell; title: The nature of invention.