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A brief history of mankind's greatest inventions, from the first firemaking implements to the internet.
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125 cool inventions
\"Get the scoop on inventions of the future before they hit stores, like the fish tank that turns your toilet into an aquarium (but don't worry, your fishy friends will be just fine), or the Cargonaut, a human-size robot that flies around picking up and delivering items just for you\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Inventors' secret scrapbook
The world's greatest inventors share the secrets of their inventions. Follow the inventing process step by step. Read about the races to invent the lightbulb, telephone, and airplane. Find out who invented the World Wide Web. You decide who was the greatest inventor of all time!
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Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time
Theories of scientific and technological change view discovery and invention as endogenous processes
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. Recent decades have witnessed exponential growth in the volume of new scientific and technological knowledge, thereby creating conditions that should be ripe for major advances
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. Here, we analyse these claims at scale across six decades, using data on 45 million papers and 3.9 million patents from six large-scale datasets, together with a new quantitative metric—the CD index
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. Subsequently, we link this decline in disruptiveness to a narrowing in the use of previous knowledge, allowing us to reconcile the patterns we observe with the ‘shoulders of giants’ view. We find that the observed declines are unlikely to be driven by changes in the quality of published science, citation practices or field-specific factors. Overall, our results suggest that slowing rates of disruption may reflect a fundamental shift in the nature of science and technology.
A decline in disruptive science and technology over time is reported, representing a substantive shift in science and technology, which is attributed in part to the reliance on a narrower set of existing knowledge.
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Hi tech world : cool stuff
Learn about the very latest technological gadgets including everything from the high performance pogo stick and gekkomat climbing aid to the watch phone with built-in camera.
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Eighteenth-century women poets and their poetry : inventing agency, inventing genre
Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet.
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Mistakes that worked : the world's familiar inventions and how they came to be
\"Do you know how many things in your daily life were invented by accident? Sandwiches came about when an English earl was too busy gambling to eat his meal and needed to keep one hand free. Potato chips were first cooked by a chef who was furious when a customer complained that his fried potatoes weren't thin enough. Coca-Cola, Silly Putty, and X rays have [interesting] stories behind them, too\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Working Knowledge
Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their \"property,\" or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that businesses retain legal ownership of employee-generated intellectual property.InWorking Knowledge, Catherine Fisk chronicles the legal and social transformations that led to the transfer of ownership of employee innovation from labor to management. This deeply contested development was won at the expense of workers' entrepreneurial independence and ultimately, Fisk argues, economic democracy.By reviewing judicial decisions and legal scholarship on all aspects of employee-generated intellectual property and combing the archives of major nineteenth-century intellectual property-producing companies--including DuPont, Rand McNally, and the American Tobacco Company--Fisk makes a highly technical area of law accessible to general readers while also addressing scholarly deficiencies in the histories of labor, intellectual property, and the business of technology.
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