Author(s): John H. Lienhard
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 288
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Part I: Priority and Apriority......Page 12
1 Ötzi and Silent Beginnings......Page 14
2 The Unrelenting Presence of Priority......Page 20
3 I Built My Airplane Before the Wright Brothers Did......Page 30
Part II: Steam and Speed......Page 44
4 Inventing Steam: "Alles was Odem hat"......Page 46
5 From Steam to Steam Engine......Page 62
6 From Steam Engine to Thermodynamics......Page 82
7 Inventing Speed......Page 106
8 Inventive Motivation and Exponential Change......Page 128
Part III: Writing and Showing......Page 146
9 Inventing Gutenberg......Page 148
10 From Gutenberg to a Newly Literate World: Gestation to Cradle to Maturation......Page 168
11 Inventing Means for Illustrating Reality......Page 184
12 Fast Presses, Cheap Books, and Ghosts of Old Readers......Page 206
Part IV: Views Through a Wider Lens......Page 226
13 Inventing Education: The Great Equalizer......Page 228
14 The Arc of Invention: Finding Finished Forms......Page 244
Notes......Page 254
Illustration Credits......Page 272
B......Page 278
C......Page 279
D......Page 280
G......Page 281
J......Page 282
M......Page 283
P......Page 284
R......Page 285
T......Page 286
X......Page 287
Z......Page 288
