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Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on June 21, 2007
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

John H. Lienhard. How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of the Machines.

John H. Lienhard. How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of the Machines. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006. ix + 277 pp. ISBN 0-19-530599-X, $30.00 (cloth)

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John H. Lienhard is an emeritus professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, but he is far better known as the creator and voice of "Engines of Our Ingenuity," a regular public radio essay that describes invention and the inventive process, or tells a story from the history of science or technology. Lienhard's essays are wonderfully casual, but well-informed vignettes from history and they have doubtless won a large and faithful audience . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Robert Friedel

University of Maryland


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