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Adkins, Jan The Art and Ingenuity of the Woodstove: a Book of History and Use Everest House 1978 Hard Cover. Out of print. Book: Illustrated.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or281100. ISBN #0896960129 / 9780896960121. (category: technology) (keywords: STOVES HOUSE HOME EQUIPMENT APPLIANCES TECHNOLOGY INVENTIONS HEATING) (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Auger, Charles P. Engineering Eponyms: An Annotated Bibliography of Some Named Elements, Principles, and Machines in Mechanical Engineering Library Association Publishing 1975 Trade Paperback. Clean text. Minor edgewear.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or634940. ISBN #0853654379 / 9780853654377. (keywords: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Baker, Kevin America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World Artisan 2016 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104393. ISBN #1579656943 / 9781579656942. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Baker, Kevin America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World Artisan 2016 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104393. ISBN #1579656943 / 9781579656942. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Among the many rewards of America the Ingenious , Kevin Baker s survey of Yankee know-how, is stumbling on its buried nuggets. . . . Baker examines a wide range of the achievements that have made, and still make, America great again and again. The Wall Street Journal All made in America: The skyscraper and subway car. The telephone and telegraph. The safety elevator and safety pin. Plus the microprocessor, amusement park, MRI, supermarket, Pennsylvania rifle, and Tennessee Valley Authority. Not to mention the city of Chicago or jazz or that magnificent Golden Gate Bridge. What is it about America that makes it a nation of inventors, tinkerers, researchers, and adventurers obsessive pursuers of the never-before-created? And, equally, what is it that makes America such a fertile place to explore, discover, and launch the next big thing? In America the Ingenious , bestselling author Kevin Baker brings his gift of storytelling and eye for historical detail to the grand, and grandly entertaining, tale of American innovation. Here are the Edisons and Bells and Carnegies, and the stories of how they followed their passions and changed our world. And also the less celebrated, like Jacob Youphes and Loeb Strauss, two Jewish immigrants from Germany who transformed the way at least half the world now dresses hint: Levi Strauss . And Leo Fender, who couldn t play a note of music, midwifing rock n roll through his solid-body electric guitar and amplifier. And the many women who weren t legally recognized as inventors, but who created things to make their lives easier that we use every day like Josephine Cochran, inventor of the dishwasher, or Marion O Brien Donovan, who invented a waterproof diaper cover. Or a guy with the improbable name of Philo Farnsworth, who, with his invention of television, upended communication as significantly as Gutenberg did. At a time when America struggles with different visions of what it wants to be, America the Ingenious shows the extraordinary power of what works: how immigration leads to innovation, what a strong government and strong public education mean to a climate of positive practical change, and why taking the long view instead of looking for short-term gain pays off many times over, not only for investors and inventors, but for the rest of us whose lives are made better by the new. America and its nation of immigrants have excelled at taking ideas from anywhere and transforming them into the startling, often unexpectedly beautiful creations that have shaped our world. This is that story.
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Bourne, Russell Invention in America: With Images from the Library of Congress (Library of Congress Classics Series) Fulcrum Publishing 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or801242. ISBN #1555912311 / 9781555912314. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Brennan, Richard P. Levitating Trains and Kamikaze Genes : Technological Literacy for the 1990s HarperPerennial 1991 Trade Paperback. Clean text.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or623083. ISBN #0060973692 / 9780060973698. (keywords: TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS SCIENCE COMPUTERS) (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Brockman, John (edited) The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years Simon & Schuster 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Some highlighting. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or708520. ISBN #068485998X / 9780684859989. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Brockman, John (edited) The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years Simon & Schuster 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Some highlighting. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or708520. ISBN #068485998X / 9780684859989. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What was the greatest invention of the past 2,000 years, and why? This provocative question was posed to some of the world's foremost scientific and creative thinkers, including several Nobel laureates. Their answers may surprise you. Lively and thought-provoking, The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years is not only an entertaining book about science and creativity but also an opportunity to peek inside the minds of some of the leading thinkers of our time. With contributors such as Stewart Brand, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Howard Gardner, Sherry Turkle, Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, and Leon Lederman, The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years is an invitation to a salon of our leading thinkers. Their answers to the editor's question are as varied as the group itself. Candidates for the greatest invention include the expected, such as the computer and movable type although even here there are intriguing insights into how these inventions have altered our civilization , and the surprising, such as the Indo-Arab counting system, the lens, classical music, and the eraser. Some contributors comment perceptively on their colleagues' nominees. Not all of the respondents limited their answers to concrete objects. Some chose as greatest "inventions" the concepts of free will, marketing, democracy and social justice, the scientific method, and our disbelief in the supernatural, arguing persuasively that ideas are inventions as much as are mechanical objects. The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years is a provocative, insightful look at how science, technology, and the creative mind have altered our lives and changed the world.
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Caney, Steven Steven Caney's Invention Book Workman Publishing Company 1985 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or761788. ISBN #0894800760 / 9780894800764. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Caney, Steven Steven Caney's Invention Book Workman Publishing Company 1985 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or761788. ISBN #0894800760 / 9780894800764. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Kids are natural inventors, bursting with notions so crazy they just might work. Chester Greenwood was just a boy when his big cold ears prompted him to fashion wire and fur into the world's first earmuffs. Caney shows how to get into "an inventing frame of mind" and how to look at everyday objects in new ways, as clues to fresh ideas. From keeping a good notebook to setting up a workshop, from building the prototype to applying for a patent, Steven Caney covers it all, even showing the young entrepreneur how to market an invention successfully. To get the creativity flowing, here are also hundreds of fantasy ideas that still need to be invented: everything from a temperature-regulating straw to sunburn alarm tabs. There are also extensive plans for twenty projects kids can build from ordinary household items. And to demonstrate the many sources of creative thinking, Caney tells the stories behind 25 landmark American inventions. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Suitable for ages 8-13. 215,000 copies in print.
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Clarke, Donald (editor) Encyclopedia of Inventions Galahad Books 1977 hard cover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or262553. ISBN #0883653907 / 9780883653906. (category: technology) (keywords: Ancient Middle Ages Medieval Renaissance Industrial Revolution Modern History) (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Costain, Thomas B. Chord of steel: Alexander Graham Bell and the Invention of the Telephone hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1016950. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Crowther, J.G. Discoveries And Inventions Of The 20th Century hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056249. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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D' Acres, R.; Jenkins, Rhys R. D'Acres's Art of Water-Drawing, Published By Henry Brome, at the Gun in Ivie Land London 1659 and 1660 W. Heffer & Sons 1930 hard cover. Clean text. Illustrated.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or382746. (keywords: TECHNOLOGY HISTORY ENGINEERING) (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Foreman, Louis; Welytok, Jill Gilbert The Independent Inventor's Handbook: The Best Advice from Idea to Payoff Workman Publishing Company 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104721. ISBN #0761149473 / 9780761149477. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Foreman, Louis; Welytok, Jill Gilbert The Independent Inventor's Handbook: The Best Advice from Idea to Payoff Workman Publishing Company 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104721. ISBN #0761149473 / 9780761149477. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary How do you actually turn a million-dollar idea into a million dollars? From scribble-on-the-napkin to product-on-the market, The Independent Inventor's Handbook explains everything a potential inventor needs to know and the tools he or she needs to use to take a raw concept and turn it into reality. Written by Louis J. Foreman, creator of the PBS series Everyday Edisons and a holder of multiple patents, together with patent attorney Jill Gilbert Welytok, here's a book that speaks directly to the inventive American the entrepreneur, the tinkerer, the dreamer, the basement scientist, the stay-at-home mom who figures out how to do it better. over one million of them file patents each year. Here is everything a future inventor needs: Understanding the difference between a good idea and a marketable idea. Why investing too much money at the outset can sink you. The downside of design patents, and how best to file an application for a utility patent. Surveys, online test runs, and other strategies for market research on a tight budget. Plus the effective pitch hint: never say your target audience is "everyone" , questions to ask a prospective manufacturer, 14 licensing land mines to avoid, "looks-like" versus "works-like" prototypes, Ten Things Not to Tell a Venture Capitalist, and how to protect your invention once it's on the market. Appendices include a glossary of legal, manufacturing, and marketing terms, a sample nondisclosure agreement, and a patent application, deconstructed.
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Hughes, Thomas P. American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970 Viking Press 1989. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or434745. ISBN #0670814784 / 9780670814787. (keywords: TECHNOLOGY HISTORY) (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Hutchinson, Alex Big Ideas: 100 Modern Inventions (That Have Transformed Our World) Hearst Books 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Price clipped. Book #or896477. ISBN #1588167224 / 9781588167224. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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Hutchinson, Alex Big Ideas: 100 Modern Inventions (That Have Transformed Our World) Hearst Books 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Price clipped. Book #or896477. ISBN #1588167224 / 9781588167224. (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the polio vaccine to the Post-It, the personal computer to Prozac, these are the scientific and technological innovations that have transformed our world. Award-winning author Alex Hutchinson unveils the 100 greatest inventions of the modern era starting with the discovery of the transistor in 1947 complete with original photographs and anecdotes about their creation. For example, a candy bar melting in a scientist s pocket during an experiment led to the invention of the microwave oven. Hutchinson consulted 25 experts at 17 museums and universities; their collective expertise spans aeronautics, automobiles, biology, computers, medicine, physics, and a host of other fields. The result includes some well-known breakthroughs the laser, in-vitro fertilization as well as a host of surprises waffle-sole running shoes, the pull-top can . This charming book will delight, fascinate, and educate.
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Lindsay, David Patent Files: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Invention Lyons Press 1999 Hard Cover. First Edition. Clean, bright copy.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or526229. ISBN #155821741X / 9781558217416. (keywords: INVENTIONS PATENTS LAW PATENT TRADEMARK) (filed under: Tech History / Inventions ) *
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