Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World

by Pagan Kennedy

Book Overview

Find out where great ideas come from. A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won't spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die. By studying inventions like these -- the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed -- we can learn how people imagine their way around "impossible" problems to discover groundbreaking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544324005
• ISBN13: 9780544324008
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"