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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 272 pages. DJ worn, Ex-library.A million people tune in twice each week to hear John H. Lienhard's radio pro gram The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Now Lienhard has gathered together his refl ections on the nature of technology, culture, human inventiveness, and the histo ry of engineering in this fascinating new book.The Engines of Our Ingenuity offers a series of intriguing glimpses into technology--as a mirror, as a danger , as a product of heroic hubris. The book brims with insightful observations. Li enhard writes, for instance, that the history of technology is a history of us-- we are the machines we create. Indeed, our very first technology, farming, which demanded year-long care, dramatically changed the rhythms of human life and the course of our history. We also learn that war does not necessarily fuel inventi on (radar, jets, and the digital computer all emerged before World War II began) , and that the medieval Church was actually a driving force behind the growth of Western technology (Cistercian monasteries were virtual factories, putting wate r wheels to work in wood-cutting, forging, and olive crushing). Lienhard also il luminates the unpredictable nature of the inventive mind, leading us through one fascinating example after another. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, for instance , were highly passionate, even combative figures, while the almost invisible Jos iah Willard Gibbs, living a quiet, outwardly uneventful life, was probably Ameri ca's greatest scientist.Lienhard ranges far and wide with stories of invento rs, mathematicians, and engineers, telling the story of the canoe, the DC-3, the Hoover Dam, the diode, and the sewing machine. The result is less history than autobiography--for the autobiography of all of us is written in our machines.</p.…

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