Imagination And A Pile Of Junk: Droll History Inventors Inventions Trevor Norton Coronet Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Computing Technology

\ In His Whistle-Stop Tour Of Inventions Large And Small The Scientist Trevor Norton Shares Gershwins\ View That Invention Is Fundamentally Comic Sunday Timestrevor Who Has Been Compared To Gerard Durrell Bill Bryson Weaves An Entertaining History With A Seductive Mix Eureka Moments Disasters Dirty Tricks Although Inventors Were Often Scientists Or Engineers Many Not: Samuel Morse (Morse Code) Was Painter Lazlow Biro (Ballpoint) Sculptor Hypnotist Logie Baird (Tv) Sold Boot Polish Inventor Automatic Telephone Switchboard Undertaker Believed Operator Diverting Calls Rival Morticians So He Decided Make All Operators Redundant Are Mavericks Indifferent Conventional Wisdom Critics Dismissive Even Their Best Ideas: Radio Had No Future Electric Light Idiotic Idea\ X-Rays Hoax State New Jersey Moved Ban X-Ray Opera Glasses Head General Post Office Rejected Telephones As Unneccesary There Plenty Boys Run Messages Inventomania Magical Place Where Eccentrics Always Season Stories Usually Unbelievable - But Rest Assured Nothing Invented Σελίδες: 448 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0811 Διαστάσεις: 13 2X13 2Cm