INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS

Inventors and Inventions includes inventions from the arcane roots of theQWERTY keyboard, to the role of Muybridge's eccentric moving-picturephotography in the development of the television, Inventors and Inventionslooks at the most fascinating stories in the history of invention,providing insight into how and why they came about, who was responsible,and their subsequent impact. Often over-looked inventors are reinstated inthe canon of invention, giving them their rightful place amongst thecelebrated minds from our past, while controversies regarding attributionare exposed and unpacked. Inventors and Inventions opens with an essay by New Scientist editorRichard Fisher, looking at some of the lesser-known and failed inventionsfrom the great inventors of our time, then goes into detail with clearlydefined chapters on Computing, Entertainment, Design, Medicine, Warfare,Sports, and others,