Flash of Genius: And Other True Stories of Invention天才的一闪念
分类: 图书,进口原版书,传记 Biographies & Memoirs ,
作者: John Seabrook 著
出 版 社: 中国科学技术大学出版社
出版时间: 2008-9-1字数:版次: 1页数: 356印刷时间: 2008/09/01开本: 32开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780312535728包装: 平装内容简介
In Flash of Genius, John Seabrook explores the moment when inspiration strikes in an otherwise average life, and what happens when that idea moves out into the larger culture and takes on a life—and commercial possibilities—of its own. The title piece in this collection is the David v. Goliath story of Bob Kearns, a professor and inventor who came up with something we all use every chance we get: the intermittent windshield wiper. When Kearns’ patents were infringed, he fought General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, and eventually prevailed in a classic American story of never giving up, never backing down.
Seabrook has been fascinated by stories of invention and entrepreneurship since childhood, when he grew up with an uncle who invented something as ubiquitous as Bob Kearns’ wipers: boil-in-bag vegetables. In Flash of Genius, Seabrook also writes about his family’s invention and about thirteen other iconoclastic visions that turned into the stuff of every day.
作者简介
John Seabrook began his magazine career at Manhattan Inc. and Vanity Fair and has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1993. He is the author of Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace, and Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture. He lives in New York City.