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Inventive Minds - Creativity in Technology (Hardcover, New)
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Inventive Minds - Creativity in Technology (Hardcover, New)
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Is invention really "99 percent perspiration and one percent
inspiration" as Thomas Edison assured us? Inventive Minds assembles
a group of authors well equipped to address this question:
contemporary inventors of important new technologies, historians of
science and industry, and cognitive psychologists interested in the
process of creativity. In telling their stories, the inventors
describe the origins of such remarkable devices as ultrasound, the
electron microscope, and artificial diamonds. The historians help
us look into the minds of innovators like Thomas Edison, Alexander
Graham Bell, Michael Faraday, and the Wright brothers, drawing on
original notebooks and other sources to show how they made their
key discoveries. Finally, cognitive psychologists explore the
mental processes that figure in creative thinking. Contributing to
the authors' insight is their special focus on the "front end" of
invention - where ideas come from and how they are transformed into
physical prototypes. They answer three questions: How does
invention happen? How does invention contrast with other commonly
creative pursuits such as scientific inquiry, musical composition,
or painting? And how might invention best happen - that is, what
kinds of settings, conditions, and strategies appear to foster
inventive activity? The book yields a wealth of information that
will make absorbing reading for cognitive and social psychologists,
social historians, and many working scientists and general readers
who are interested in the psychology of personality and the roots
of ingenuity.
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