Invention and innovation : a brief history of hype and failure
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- ISBN: 9780262048057 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 a (near) vacuum (hyperloop) ; Nitrogen-fixing cereals ; Nuclear fusion -- Techno-optimism, exaggerations, and realistic expectations. Breakthroughs that are not ; The myth of ever-faster innovations ; What we need most. |
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Subject: | Errors History Inventions Defects History Popular works New products History System failures (Engineering) History Technological forecasting |
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Stroud Branch | 600 Smi | 31681010309649 | NONFIC | Available | - |