Research Catalog
Eureka : how invention happens
- Title
- Eureka : how invention happens / Gavin Weightman.
- Author
- Weightman, Gavin
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xi, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The bird men -- Seeing with electricity -- Written in the sand -- Homebrewed -- Hard cell -- Afterword: The nature of invention.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-830
- ISBN
- 9780300192087 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 0300192088 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- LCCN
- 2015007461
- OCLC
- 904942595
- Author
- Weightman, Gavin, author.
- Title
- Eureka : how invention happens / Gavin Weightman.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-830