Inventors at work

1988 - Microsoft Press - 1-55615-042-3 - 388 pages - EN



Inventors at work
INVENTORS AT WORK is a collection of sixteen engaging interviews with some of the most notable inventors of our time, from professional R and D specialists such as NASA's Maxime Faget, Hughes Aircraft's Harold Rosen, and Xerox's Bob Gundlach to independents such as entrepreneur Stanford Ovshinsky and artificial intelligence expert Raymond Kurzweil. Their accomplishments—the laser, the microprocessor, the man-powered airplane, the implantable pacemaker, the Apple II computer, the plastic soda pop bottle, and many others—represent both the boldly significant and the subtly brilliant.
Along with fascinating individual stories, INVENTORS AT WORK reveals instructive glimpses into the creative process, thoughts on the personal challenges and institutional roadblocks an inventor faces today, a look at invention as art and invention by committee, and discussions of the impact of United States patent laws and a capitalist economy on the inventive spirit.

Inventors at work
There have been inventors since the beginning of recorded history— and they have at all times, in a sense, been timeless.... These are the people whose mental processes we must try to understand if we are to make sense of what we are about to experience during the next generation. ...to survive in a world where we will be called on to make those leaps of the imagination that until now only the innovative mind has made.... Ken Brown's perceptive and engaging approach to his subjects and their work makes those processes readily and excitingly available to the reader.
From the Foreword by James Burke,
creator of the BBC Series The Day the Universe Changed

Origine : Collection Robert Ligonnière

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