Invention :
Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964.
Invention : the care and feeding of ideas / Norbert Wiener ; with an introduction by Steve Joshua Heims. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1993. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 159 pages)
Includes index.
Introduction / Steve Joshua Heims -- 1. The Need and Conditions for Invention -- 2. The Intellectual Climate and Invention -- 3. Circumstances Favorable and Unfavorable to Original Ideas -- 4. The Technical Climate and Invention -- 5. The Social Climate and Invention -- 6. The Scientific Climate at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- 7. The Present Social Environment of Invention: Megabuck Science -- 8. The Present Social Environment of Invention: Megabuck Science, Part II -- 9. Noncalculable Risks and the Economic Environment of Invention -- 10. Patents and Invention: The American Patent System -- 11. Goals and Problems.
English.
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Inventions--History.
Inventions--Social aspects--History.--United States
SCIENCE--Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Social Aspects.
Inventions.
Inventions--Social aspects.
Uitvindingen.
Technology - General.
Engineering & Applied Sciences.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
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Invention : the care and feeding of ideas / Norbert Wiener ; with an introduction by Steve Joshua Heims. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1993. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 159 pages)
Includes index.
Introduction / Steve Joshua Heims -- 1. The Need and Conditions for Invention -- 2. The Intellectual Climate and Invention -- 3. Circumstances Favorable and Unfavorable to Original Ideas -- 4. The Technical Climate and Invention -- 5. The Social Climate and Invention -- 6. The Scientific Climate at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- 7. The Present Social Environment of Invention: Megabuck Science -- 8. The Present Social Environment of Invention: Megabuck Science, Part II -- 9. Noncalculable Risks and the Economic Environment of Invention -- 10. Patents and Invention: The American Patent System -- 11. Goals and Problems.
English.
0585369178 9780585369174 0262286181 9780262286183
92035656
Inventions--History.
Inventions--Social aspects--History.--United States
SCIENCE--Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Social Aspects.
Inventions.
Inventions--Social aspects.
Uitvindingen.
Technology - General.
Engineering & Applied Sciences.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
T15 / .W65 1993eb
303.48/3