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ISBN10: 0195167317, ISBN13: 9780195167313, [publisher: Oxford University Press OUP] Softcover pp. 272
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]

Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, Date: 2003. Paperback. New. 272 pages. 8.50x6.50x0.75 inches. 2003. Oxford Univ Pr on Demand ISBN 0195167317 9780195167313 [GB]

ISBN10: 0195167317, ISBN13: 9780195167313, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the history of technology is a history of us--we are the machines we create. Thus farming dramatically changed the rhythms of human life and redirected history. War seldom fuelsinvention--radar, jets, and the digital computer all emerged before World War II began. And the medieval Church was a driving force behind the growth of Western technology--Cistercian monasteries werevirtual factories, whose water wheels cut wood, forged iron, and crushed olives. Lienhard illustrates his themes through inventors, mathematicians, and engineers--with stories of the canoe, the DC-3, the Hoover Dam, the diode, and the sewing machine. We gain new insight as to who we are, through the familiar machines and technologies that are central to our lives. This book explores the nature of creativity in engineering and technology, and how it relates to creativity in art or science. Lienhard has for ten years done a twice-weekly radio show, carried on about 35 NPR stations, consisting of 3-minute essays on technology. He uses the substance of selected segments of his radio ...