An Inventor S Dream

Author : Pagan Kennedy
Publisher : HMH
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780544324015

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Inventology by Pagan Kennedy Pdf

Find out where great ideas come from in this “delightful account of how inventors do what they do” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won’t spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die. By studying inventions like these—the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed —we can learn how people imagine their way around “impossible” problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on how these enduring methods can be adapted to the twenty-first century, as millions of us deploy tools like crowdfunding, big data, and 3-D printing to find hidden opportunities. Inventology uses the stories of inventors and surprising research to reveal the steps that produce innovation. Recent advances in technology and communication have placed us at the cusp of a golden age; it’s now more possible than ever before to transform ideas into actuality. Inventology is a must-read for designers, artists, makers—and anyone else who is curious about creativity. By identifying the steps of the invention process, Kennedy reveals the imaginative tools required to solve our most challenging problems. “There’s ample interest here even for readers who aren’t actively inventing anything.” —The Boston Globe

Author : Craig Canine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226092658

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Dream Reaper by Craig Canine Pdf

"An important book, rich with history and stories. it brings our most essential industry -- farming -- into new perspective. Reading it made me want to get out a crop". -- Bobbie Ann Mason Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Chad Douglas Bulau
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466906013

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An Inventor's Dream by Chad Douglas Bulau Pdf

The fourth truth about the ways of the Pythagoreans and the followers of Pythagoras. Set throughout time with magic and technology, both are at their extremities. One has come full force while the other one is still thinking. Making way to a utopia, the two will become revealed in their own time. The Pythagoreans hold the key to survival. It is up to the element to lay out the endemic duel of adversities throughout the universe as we become privileged in the workings of Our Father, the Deity of mankind . . .

Author : Roger Lacasse
Publisher : [Montréal] : Libre expression
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : All terrain vehicles
ISBN : 2891113411

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Joseph-Armand Bombardier by Roger Lacasse Pdf

Author : Matthew Stewart
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004806056

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Monturiol's Dream by Matthew Stewart Pdf

A marvelous rediscovery: the compelling story of the strange and noble life--and dream--of nineteenth-century utopian social revolutionary and self-taught engineer Narcis Monturiol, who invented the world's first fully operational steam-powered submarine, not as a weapon of war but as a means of saving human life and spreading democracy. Matthew Stewart tells the story of Monturiol from his childhood to his years living the dangerous life of a revolutionary. We see him at the bloody barricades and fleeing--one step ahead of the Barcelona police--to the remote coastline of northern Catalonia. On that shore, watching teams of divers risk their lives gathering coral from the water's depths for use in the making of jewels, candelabras, and crimson pigment, he finds the true purpose of his life. He saves a man presumed dead from drowning and conceives of a craft that will protect the divers who harvest coral--a safe, hermetically sealed underwater vessel that will make the ocean's bounty available to the common man. Stewart writes about the building of Monturiol's submarine: how, without scientific education (he was a lawyer by training), Monturiol read books on physics, chemistry, and biology; how he launched a hand-powered prototype submarine capable of reaching depths of sixty feet; how his efforts to gain government support for building a larger submarine were thwarted (his invention was dismissed by one official as having "no useful applications"). We see Monturiol, unwilling to give up on his dream, turn to the artists, poets, and musicians of Barcelona to help him mobilize the public to fund his project, and how he launched his second, much larger vessel five years later: themost advanced submarine of its day; at more than fifty feet long it displaced seventy-two tons and navigated reliably at depths of up to one hundred feet, with a unique system for eliminating carbon dioxide, replenishing oxygen in the interior cabin, and enabling its crew to remain underwater indefinitely. It had a steam engine for propulsion, a chemical furnace to heat the engine as it generated oxygen for the crew, external lights, portholes, and pincers for harvesting coral and other objects from the deep. It was the first true submarine; the world would not see its equal for another twenty years. And we watch as Monturiol's revolutionary friends, making use of his utopian ideals and notions of urban planning (a term he originated), forge a new culture for Catalonia and its capital city and create the radical design that resulted in an entirely new Barcelona.

Author : Vivian Kirkfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781939547316

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Sweet Dreams, Sarah by Vivian Kirkfield Pdf

Describes the life of Sarah Goode, who was born a slave and grew up to invent a space-saving foldable bed and became the first African American woman to obtain a patent in the United States.

Author : Stephen Key
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071761284

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One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work by Stephen Key Pdf

Turn your great idea into millions—without lifting a finger! Yes, a good idea is enough to build a fortune! Too many people think production, marketing, and distribution are essential to the entrepreneurial process. As One Simple Idea shows, you can hand these tasks off to others—and make big money in doing so. Stephen Key, a highly successful entrepreneur whose creations have generated billions of revenue, offers the simple, effortless secret to success: license your simple idea and let others do the work. Breaking down the process of generating and licensing a product idea to a large company, he explains why you don’t need to reinvent the wheel: Simple improvements to existing products can be very successful endeavors—and the most lucrative. The old method of bringing products to market through prototyping and patents doesn’t work anymore. It’s cheaper and more profitable to do it Key’s way. One Simple Idea gives you everything you need to tap into the marketing and sales power of partners and licensors for maximum profit.

Author : Gillian Holloway
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dream interpretation
ISBN : 9781402220593

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Complete Dream Book by Gillian Holloway Pdf

The Complete Dream Book is the only dream interpretation book based on concrete data about real people's dreams and how the real events in their lives relate to their nighttime visions.

Author : John Timbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Discoveries in science
ISBN : BL:A0018050942

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Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts by John Timbs Pdf

Includes a folded plate entitled "Mr. Babbage's difference engine," following p. 142.

Author : Rayvon Fouché
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801882702

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Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation by Rayvon Fouché Pdf

According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors, quintessential loners and supposed geniuses, worked in splendid isolation and then unveiled their discoveries to a marveling world. Most successful inventors of this era, however, developed their ideas within the framework of industrial organizations that supported them and their experiments. For African American inventors, negotiating these racially stratified professional environments meant not only working on innovative designs but also breaking barriers. In this pathbreaking study, Rayvon Fouché examines the life and work of three African Americans: Granville Woods (1856–1910), an independent inventor; Lewis Latimer (1848–1928), a corporate engineer with General Electric; and Shelby Davidson (1868–1930), who worked in the U.S. Treasury Department. Detailing the difficulties and human frailties that make their achievements all the more impressive, Fouché explains how each man used invention for financial gain, as a claim on entering adversarial environments, and as a means to technical stature in a Jim Crow institutional setting. Describing how Woods, Latimer, and Davidson struggled to balance their complicated racial identities—as both black and white communities perceived them—with their hopes of being judged solely on the content of their inventive work, Fouché provides a nuanced view of African American contributions to—and relationships with—technology during a period of rapid industrialization and mounting national attention to the inequities of a separate-but-equal social order.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCR:31210011017512

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Medical Procedures Innovation and Affordability Act and Inventor Protection Act of 1995 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property Pdf

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Author : Paula Brillson Phillips,Fred Ruckel,Natasha Ruckel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733073000

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As Stolen on TV by Paula Brillson Phillips,Fred Ruckel,Natasha Ruckel Pdf

Author : Oscar H. Banker,Robert Hull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Armenian Americans
ISBN : UOM:39076002683972

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Dreams and Wars of an American Inventor by Oscar H. Banker,Robert Hull Pdf

Author : Brett Stern
Publisher : Apress
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781430245070

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Inventors at Work by Brett Stern Pdf

Inventors at Work: The Minds and Motivation Behind Modern Inventions is a collection of interviews with inventors of famous products, innovations, and technologies that have made life easier or even changed the way we live. All of these scientists, engineers, wild-eyed geniuses, and amateur technologists have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of that singular Eureka! moment in their laboratories or garages. Each has altered the modern world as we know it in some significant way. The conversations will show budding tinkerers, professional inventors, educators, and onlookers how the top minds in the field come up with ideas and manage the first steps of inspiration, how they experiment productively, how they “sell” ideas to others and secure funding, how they execute the final product, and how they commercialize and protect their work. All inventors will learn from these conversations, whether they are exploring new chemical compounds in million-dollar labs or perfecting a household gadget or toy in a basement workshop. Author Brett Stern, an inventor himself, explores with each inventor the nature of creativity and intuition, the skill set needed, and the force, motivation, or desire that must be summoned to spend endless hours searching for an answer to a question that no one else has asked or solving a problem most think has no solution. The book is required reading for all technical and creative individuals to better understand the innovation process and the logistics of following through on an idea that has the potential to change society. This book offers: Interviews with inventors of world-changing products and technologies An outline of the steps required in the creative/inventing process whether the goal is a civilization-changing process or a device meant to impress friends and family and perhaps earn license fees. An instructive overview of how to solve problems in innovation—and how to use failures as stepping stones to successful inventions

Author : Dr. D.K. Olukoya
Publisher : Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries/ The Battle Cry Christian Ministries
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789788424918

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Prayers to Fulfill Your Destiny's Dreams by Dr. D.K. Olukoya Pdf