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Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure

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Title/Author:	Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure/ by Ian Wills.
Author:	Wills, Ian.
Description:	VII, 257 p. 75 illus., 27 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29940-8
ISBN:	9783030299408

Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure
Wills, Ian.

Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure[electronic resource] /by Ian Wills. - 1st ed. 2019. - VII, 257 p. 75 illus., 27 illus. in color.online resource. - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,520929-6425 ;. - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,37.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Edison and Failure Chapter -- 2. Success, Failure and Innovation: the Carbon Microphone -- Chapter 3. Failure and Success -- Chapter 4. Innovation and Systems -- Chapter 5. Innovation Must Fail -- Chapter 6. Catastrophic Failure -- Part II: Edison Science and Invention -- Chapter 7. Inventive Success: the Phonograph -- Chapter 8. Scientific Failure: Etheric Force -- Part III: Edison's World -- Chapter 9. Thomas Edison and Patents -- Chapter 10. The Edisonian Method: Trial and Error -- Part IV: Reversing Edison -- Chapter 11. Reverse Engineering -- Chapter 12. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Notes.

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.

ISBN: 9783030299408

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-29940-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

559771
Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: B53

Dewey Class. No.: 601

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