Eureka : how invention happens
Weightman, Gavin2015
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No matter how cutting-edge, astonishing and revolutionary our modern inventions, they all have a long pre-history. Gavin Weightman's 'Eureka' charts the fascinating gestation of five familiar and now-ubiquitous technologies that appeared in the twentieth-century - the aeroplane, the television, the mobile phone, the bar code, and the personal computer - exploring the series of tiny innovations, radical breakthroughs and eccentric personalities behind the march to the moment of discovery.
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Eureka : how invention happens / Gavin Weightman.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
Collation:
280 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780300192087 (hbk)
Dewey class:
600600
Language:
English
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BRN:
2150433
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