ISBN10: 019506402X, ISBN13: 9780195064025, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 019506402X, ISBN13: 9780195064025, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. How do inventions take shape? How did the inventors of the sewing needle, the hammer, or the wheel find their ideas? Are these creations the result of random events, or are hidden principles at work? Using everyday objects most of us take for grantedfrom forks and hook and loop fastener to safety pins and doorknobsnoted cognitive psychologist Robert Weber takes a fascinating look at how our world of inventions came into being, and how the mind's problem-solving abilities gave them the forms they have. As an archaeologist studies shards of pottery for clues about an ancient culture, Weber examines the many forms of inventions, from stone knives to genetically engineered mice, and finds a rich record of the work of many minds over timea record of human creativity and problem-solving handed down through the centuries. He offers various methods for analyzing what mental paths might have been taken by these inventive minds. In the test for design, for example, he ponders how an item would work if various components were shuffled or constructed differently, revealing how the optimal shape of the invention was discovered. He challenges the reader to engage in thought experiments to explore how the horse-drawn cart, the waterscrew, or the fork might have taken shape over many years, through the efforts of successive inventors and adapters. In stripping ...
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New York, NY Clarendon Press 1993 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 296 p.

New York, NY Clarendon Press 1993 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 296 p.

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New York, NY Oxford University Press, USA 1993 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 296 p.

ISBN10: 019506402X, ISBN13: 9780195064025, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 019506402X, ISBN13: 9780195064025, [publisher: Oxford University Press, New york] Hardcover 8vo pp. 277
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ISBN10: 019506402X, ISBN13: 9780195064025, [publisher: OUP] Hardcover First Edition OUP. 1992. Presumed first. Hard Cover. Book: Very Good. DJ: Good, spine lightened. 9.5x6.5. 277pp. Some b/w illus.
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ISBN10: 019506402X, ISBN13: 9780195064025, [publisher: Oxford University Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition 8vo, 277 pp.
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