Internet Alley

Paul E Ceruzzi

• Paperback | Engels | Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation
• How government military contractors and high-tech firms transformed an unincorporated suburban crossroads into the center of the world's Internet mana... Lees meer

The Color Revolution

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

• Hardcover | Engels | Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation
• A history of color and commerce from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design. When the fashion industry declares that lime green is t... Lees meer

American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&d

Eric S Hintz

• Paperback | Engels | Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation
• How America's individual inventors persisted alongside corporate R&D labs as an important source of inventions. During the nineteenth century, heroic ... Lees meer

Power Struggles

Michael Brian Schiffer

• Hardcover | Engels | Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation
• The development of electrical technologies that laid the foundation for Edison's work: their invention, commercialization, and adoption. In 1882, Thom... Lees meer

Inventing for the Environment

• Paperback | Engels | Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation
• Essays by historians and practioners on how invention can benefit the environment. This ambitious book describes the many ways in which invention affe... Lees meer

Does America Need More Innovators?

• Paperback | Engels | Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation
• A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation. Corporate executives, politicians... Lees meer

Beyond Bakelite

Joris Mercelis

• Paperback | Engels | Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation
• The changing relationships between science and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrated by the career of the "father... Lees meer

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age

Kurt W Beyer

• Paperback | Engels | Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation
• The career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's p... Lees meer

Handprints on Hubble

Kathryn D Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation
• The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Spac... Lees meer