Thomas Edison : success and innovation through failure /: success and innovation through failure. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ian Wills.
• Authors: Wills, Ian
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Edison and Failure Chapter.- 2. Success, Failure and Innovation: the Carbon Microphone.- Chapter 3. Failure and Success.- Chapter 4. Innovation and Systems.- Chapter 5. Innovation Must Fail.- Chapter 6. Catastrophic Failure.- Part II: Edison Science and Invention.- Chapter 7. Inventive Success: the Phonograph.- Chapter 8. Scientific Failure: Etheric Force.- Part III: Edison's World.- Chapter 9. Thomas Edison and Patents.- Chapter 10. The Edisonian Method: Trial and Error.- Part IV: Reversing Edison.- Chapter 11. Reverse Engineering.- Chapter 12. Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Notes.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 621.3092; Inventors -- United States -- Biography; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030299408; 3030299406
• Related ISBNs: 3030299392; 9783030299392
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2020).
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