Robert J Weber

Inventive Minds

• Author(s): Robert John Weber, David N. Perkins

• Categories: Creative ability in technology

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1992
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• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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 ...

Register of Retired Commissioned and Warrant Officers, Regular and Reserve, of the United States Navy

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1984
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Register of Retired Commissioned and Warrant Officers, Regular and Reserve, of the United States Navy and Marine Corps

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1978
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register

• Author(s): United States Civil Service Commission

• Categories: Government executives

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1897
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Health Planning Reports: Subject index. 4 v

• Author(s): United States. Health Resources Administration

• Categories: Health planning

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1978
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• Publisher: Unknown

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