Forks, phonographs, and hot air balloons : a field guide to inventive thinking
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Forks, phonographs, and hot air balloons : a field guide to inventive thinking
Oxford University Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-272) and index
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Description
Wheels, doorknobs, forks, and sewing needles are such everyday items that we rarely bother to wonder how they were invented. But where did the idea for the tea bag come from? Or the waterscrew, synthesizers, or genetic engineering? Drawing on hundreds of examples, this intriguing book sheds new light on human ingenuity from the Stone Age to the present day. Arguing that all inventions are the result of the same basic principles rather than random inspiration,
cognitive psychologist Robert Weber reveals our mind's amazing capacity for problem-solving, and encourages us to take a fresh look at the world around us and tap into our own creativity.
Table of Contents
- THE HIDDEN INTELLIGENCE OF INVENTION: A context for invention
- Novice invention and a problem-based diary
- Expert invention and the turn of the screw
- AN INVENTION FRAMEWORK: Describing an invention
- Evaluating and comparing inventions
- Understanding the created world
- THE HEURISTICS OF INVENTION: Heuristics as the engine of variation
- Single-invention heuristics
- Multiple-invention heuristics: linking
- Multiple-invention heuristics: joining
- Transformational heuristics
- Discovering heuristics
- Applting heuristics
- inventions after their time?
- COMMON INVENTION THEMES: A material world
- The interface's from
- The art of containment
- Procedure's way
- Transgenic myth to transgenic mouse
- Epilogue: Invention through the looking glass
- Notes
- References
- Index.
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