Imagination And A Pile Of Junk

Author : Trevor Norton
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 9781444732580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagination and a Pile of Junk written by Trevor Norton and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the Gershwins' view that invention is fundamentally comic.' The Sunday Times Trevor Norton, who has been compared to Gerard Durrell and Bill Bryson, weaves an entertaining history with a seductive mix of eureka moments, disasters and dirty tricks. Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Lazlow Biro (ballpoint) was a sculptor and hypnotist, and Logie Baird (TV) sold boot polish. The inventor of the automatic telephone switchboard was an undertaker who believed the operator was diverting his calls to rival morticians so he decided to make all telephone operators redundant. Inventors are mavericks indifferent to conventional wisdom so critics were dismissive of even their best ideas: radio had 'no future,' electric light was 'an idiotic idea' and X-rays were 'a hoax.' Even so, the state of New Jersey moved to ban X-ray opera glasses. The head of the General Post Office rejected telephones as unneccesary as there were 'plenty of small boys to run messages.' Inventomania is a magical place where eccentrics are always in season and their stories are usually unbelievable - but rest assured, nothing has been invented.

Author : Earl Smith
Publisher : Islandport Press
ISBN 13 : 9781952143274
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Downeast Genius written by Earl Smith and published by Islandport Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this breezy history, Earl Smith highlights the stories of more than 50 Maine inventors and their inventions--from earmuffs to chewing gum to machine guns--showcasing the impact they had on the world and the way we live today.

Author : Frank Morton Todd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Exposition written by Frank Morton Todd and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series of volumes describe the Panama-Pacific International Exposition from idea to inception.

Author : Mervyn D. Kaufman
Publisher : In the Hands of a Child
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Alva Edison written by Mervyn D. Kaufman and published by In the Hands of a Child. This book was released on 1962 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in 60 years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385534949
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissident Gardens written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her precocious and willful daughter, Miriam, equally passionate in her activism, flees Rose’s influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village. These women cast spells over the men in their lives: Rose’s aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her cousin, the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam’s (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. Flawed and idealistic, Lethem’s characters struggle to inhabit the utopian dream in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference. As the decades pass—from the parlor communism of the ’30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged ’70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment—we come to understand through Lethem’s extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal. Lethem’s characters may pursue their fates within History with a capital H, but his novel is—at its mesmerizing, beating heart—about love.

Author : Helen Colebrook
Publisher : David and Charles
ISBN 13 : 1446378721
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal with Purpose written by Helen Colebrook and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal with Purpose is the ultimate reference for journaling, packed with over 1000 motifs that you can use to decorate and enhance your bullet or dot journal pages. Copy or trace direct from the page, or follow one of the quick exercises to improve your skills. Featuring all the journal elements you could wish for – banners, arrows, dividers, scrolls, icons, borders and alphabets – this amazing value book will be a constant source of inspiration for journaling and an 'instant fix' for people who find the more artistic side of journaling a challenge.

Author : Mark A. Runco
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0122270754
Total Pages : 1698 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Creativity written by Mark A. Runco and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1999-08-02 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedia provides specific information and guidance for everyone who is searching for greater understanding and inspiration. Subjects include theories of creativity, techniques for enhancing creativity, individuals who have made contributions to creativity.

Author : Clyde Holsapple
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540438489
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Knowledge Management 2 written by Clyde Holsapple and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume consists of the sections: technologies for knowledge management, outcomes of KM, knowledge management in action, and the KM horizon.

Author : Gary W. Miller
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128140801
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Exposome written by Gary W. Miller and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Exposome: A New Paradigm for the Environment and Health, Second Edition, is a thoroughly expanded and updated edition of The Exposome: A Primer, the first book dedicated to the topic. This new release outlines the purpose and scope of this emerging field of study, its practical applications, and how it complements a broad range of disciplines. The book contains sections on -omics-based technologies, newer detection methods, managing and integrating exposome data (including maps, models, computation and systems biology), and more. Both students and scientists in toxicology, environmental health, epidemiology and public health will benefit from this rigorous, yet readable, overview. This updated edition includes a more in-depth examination of the exposome, including full references, further reading and thought questions. Addresses an emerging field that connects with other exciting disciplines Written by a single author who is a leader in the field Includes new content that widely expands on the first edition

Author : A. David Napier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199969353
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Things Better written by A. David Napier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napier demonstrates how non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can redress the ills of contemporary economic systems in which our relationship to material things transforms animate elements of social life into inanimate commodities. Such processes separate objects from domains of deep meaning and release individuals from the moral relationships on which feelings of attachment, community responsibility, and a sense of place depend.