Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- INTRODUCTION
- Ist Teil von
- Success through Failure, 2018, p.1
- Auflage
- NED - New edition
- Ort / Verlag
- Princeton University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2018
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Desire, not necessity, is the mother of invention. New things and the ideas for things come from our dissatisfaction with what there is and from the want of a satisfactory thing for doing what we want done. More precisely, the development of new artifacts and new technologies follows from the failure of existing ones to perform as promised or as well as can be hoped for or imagined. Frustration and disappointment associated with the use of a tool or the performance of a system puts a challenge on the table: Improve the thing. Sometimes, as when a part breaks in
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780691180991, 0691180997Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt1wx93qn_5
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Applied arts, Applied sciences, Architectural elements, Architecture, Arts, Bridge building, Bridge engineering, Bridges, Buildings, Civil engineering, Design, Design engineering, Elevators, Engineering, Green buildings, Hammers, Hand tools, High rise buildings, Narrow bridges, Railroad buildings, Tall buildings, Technology, Transportation buildings