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- EBSCOhost
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2022).
- Contents
- Invention and innovation : a long history and modern infatuation -- Inventions that turned from welcome to undesirable. Leaded gasoline ; DDT ; Chlorofluorocarbons -- Inventions that were to dominate -- and do not. Airships ; Nuclear fission ; Supersonic flight -- Inventions that we keep waiting for. Travel in vacuum (hyperloop) ; Nitrogen-fixing cereals ; Nuclear fusion -- Techno-optimism, exaggerations and realistic expectations. Breakthroughs that are not ; Myth of ever-faster innovations ; What we need most.
- ISBN
- 9780262374262
- 0262374269
- 9780262374255
- 0262374250
- LCCN
- 2022019900
- OCLC
- 2022019900
- Author
Smil, Vaclav, author.
- Title
Invention and innovation : a brief history of hype and failure / Vaclav Smil.
- Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2022).
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Inventions
SCIENCE / History
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EBSCOhost
- Other Form:
Print version: Smil, Vaclav. Invention and innovation Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2023 9780262048057 (DLC) 2022019899