| 书目名称 | Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure |
| 编辑 | Ian Wills |
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| 概述 | Argues for the revolutionary proposal that in innovation, failure is not something to avoid but something to be actively pursued.Showing how Thomas Edison, America‘s most prolific and successful inven |
| 丛书名称 | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |
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| 描述 | .This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America‘s most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edison‘s active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a tool were crucial to his success. From this the author argues that not only should we expect innovations to fail but that there are good reasons to want them to fail. Using Edison‘s laboratory notebooks, written as he worked and before he knew the outcome we see the many false starts, wrong directions and failures that he worked through on his way to producing revolutionary inventions. While Edison‘s strengths in exploiting failure made him the icon of American inventors, they could also be liabilities when he moved from one field to another. Not only is this book of value to readers with an interest in the history of technology and American invention, its insights are important to those who seek to innovate and to those who employ and finance them.. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2019 |
| 关键词 | Thomas Edison‘s life; Edison and the telephone; carbon telephone; the carbon microphone; Edison and fail |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29940-8 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-29942-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-29940-8Series ISSN 1871-7381 Series E-ISSN 2215-1958 |
| issn_series | 1871-7381 |
| copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 |
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