Inventing a Better Mousetrap

Inventing a Better Mousetrap
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Publisher : Maker Media, Inc.
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9781457187148
ISBN-13 : 1457187140
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Inventing a Better Mousetrap by : Alan Rothschild

Download or read book Inventing a Better Mousetrap written by Alan Rothschild and published by Maker Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the role that patent models played in American history--and even learn to build your own replica! Patent models, working models required for US patent filings from 1790 to 1880, offer insight into--and inspiration from--a period of intense technological advancement, the Industrial Revolution. The Rothschild Patent Model Collection consists of thousands of patent models, many from the 19th century. This book features the most outstanding of these patent models, and offers deep insight into the cultural, economic, and political history of the United States. This book not only catalogs hundreds of the most compelling models from the collection, but shows you how to build your own replicas of several selected models using Lego, 3D printing, and other materials and techniques.

A Better Mousetrap: the business of invention

A Better Mousetrap: the business of invention
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Publisher : Graham Barker
Total Pages : 7
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ISBN-10 : 9780951385609
ISBN-13 : 0951385607
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Better Mousetrap: the business of invention by : Graham Barker

Download or read book A Better Mousetrap: the business of invention written by Graham Barker and published by Graham Barker. This book was released on 2007 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inventing a Better Mousetrap

Inventing a Better Mousetrap
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Publisher : Maker Media, Inc.
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781457187162
ISBN-13 : 1457187167
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Inventing a Better Mousetrap by : Alan Rothschild

Download or read book Inventing a Better Mousetrap written by Alan Rothschild and published by Maker Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the role that patent models played in American history--and even learn to build your own replica! Patent models, working models required for US patent filings from 1790 to 1880, offer insight into--and inspiration from--a period of intense technological advancement, the Industrial Revolution. The Rothschild Patent Model Collection consists of thousands of patent models, many from the 19th century. This book features the most outstanding of these patent models, and offers deep insight into the cultural, economic, and political history of the United States. This book not only catalogs hundreds of the most compelling models from the collection, but shows you how to build your own replicas of several selected models using Lego, 3D printing, and other materials and techniques.

“...And Then What Happened?”

“...And Then What Happened?”
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781481757911
ISBN-13 : 1481757911
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis “...And Then What Happened?” by : Victor Kelley

Download or read book “...And Then What Happened?” written by Victor Kelley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people in our country become fascinated by stories reported by favorite newscasters Walter Cronkite and Ed Murrow being two prime examples that had wide audiences who accepted their comments and reported their news and views as gospel. Chicago, on the other hand, began a love affair with a street reporter named Studs Terkel (1912-2008), whose 45-year career of recording interviews with a wide spectrum of street people and common folk who were asked for their views on what they liked, hated, living circumstances, and an abundance of topics that they tolerated but despised, racial views being a prime topic of comments. The people Terkel sought out were the homeless, streetwalkers, prostitutes, cops, firemen, celebrities, doctors, teachers, businessmen, and a full spectrum of people in the building trades. Usually those he chose to interview were more than pleased to be asked for their comments, and would pour out stories that made Terkels hour-long radio broadcasts on Chicagos WFMTs a fascinating listening experience. As if the person being interviewed hadnt bared enough of his/her soul to the reporter, Terkel would wait until their story was finished before then asking them and then what happened? The shock of this quest invariably resulted with additional startling stories coming out of the mouths of the victims Studs had chosen to interview. In fact, these comments asked the people he interviewed after the first part of the story they rendered revealed secrets and things that the person had never mentioned to anybody. They were like icing added to a cake, and turned out to be the fascination that brought the reporter abundant listeners, as well as rendering Studs Terkel just about every book award and citation ever given to a single person in the United States. Studs Terkel interviews gained him the top echelon of reporters during the 45 years that his radio and then television shows were in demand by Chigagoans from 1952-1997. His variety of stories was the catalyst that prompted Victor Kelley to publish his own version of events that fascinated readers of his eight books.

Inventing Modern

Inventing Modern
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 0198036361
ISBN-13 : 9780198036364
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Inventing Modern by : John H. Lienhard

Download or read book Inventing Modern written by John H. Lienhard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles--lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood--the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise. Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence--a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes.

Engines Of Prosperity: Templates For The Information Age

Engines Of Prosperity: Templates For The Information Age
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Publisher : World Scientific
Total Pages : 413
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ISBN-10 : 9781783262427
ISBN-13 : 1783262427
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Engines Of Prosperity: Templates For The Information Age by : John D Trudel

Download or read book Engines Of Prosperity: Templates For The Information Age written by John D Trudel and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-09-28 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of business is in the throes of a new revolution. It is, paradoxically, both the best and worst of times. Opportunity abounds, but the economic, societal, and technological foundations of the Machine Age are crumbling. Confounded by chaos and heavily pressured for results, most Western managers have no better ideas for how to compete than to endlessly copy each other, cut costs, and buy up rivals. Downsizing is epidemic and decline common.Clearly, the world is going though a major transition. When this transformation is completed, it will look very different. This upheaval will change everything, but the focus and maximum stress point is economic. In the future world power and national prosperity will increasingly depend on the ability to compete in high value added product-market areas. The winners will develop new societal models for business, economics, government, and education.This current and authoritative book is the joint product of an academician and a business practitioner, both of whom share a deep concern about the inadequacy of current models and practices. It examines the new environment and explores the underlying drivers — the “Engines of Prosperity” — that set the new rules of competitive rivalry. It provides timely advice for managers on how to operate in a world characterized by Information Age technology, rapid change, deepening global linkages, increasing returns to scale, and the continuous unbundling of value chains.

Inventing Times Square

Inventing Times Square
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 532
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ISBN-10 : 0801853370
ISBN-13 : 9780801853371
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Inventing Times Square by : William R. Taylor

Download or read book Inventing Times Square written by William R. Taylor and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique volume, Inventing Times Square approaches the subject of twentieth-century American city culture through a multidimensional examination of one quintessential urban space: Times Square. Ranging in time from 1905, when the crossroad was given its present name, through to the current plans for redevelopment, the authors examine Times Square as economic hub, real estate bonanza, entertainment center, advertising medium, architectural experiment, and erotic netherworld. Though the volume centers on Times Square, the essays venture much further into urban history and American social history, revealing in the process how Times Square reflected—even epitomized—America as it became an urban consumer culture.