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Invention--that single leap of a human mind that gives us all we create. Yet we make a mistake when we call a telephone or a light bulb an invention, says John Lienhard. In truth, light bulbs, airplanes, steam engines--these objects are the end results, the fruits, of vast aggregates of invention. They are not invention itself.In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspiration

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Author

John H Lienhard, 1930-

Publisher

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195305999

Category

history

Subjects

Engineering, Philosophy, Technology

Rating

3.73 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14