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Edison, Thomas A. (1847-1931.)

Thomas Edisonsuccess and innovation through failure /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Thomas Edisonby Ian Wills.
Reminder of title:	success and innovation through failure /
Author:	Wills, Ian.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	vii, 257 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	InventorsBiography.United States
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29940-8
ISBN:	9783030299408$q(electronic bk.)

Thomas Edisonsuccess and innovation through failure /
Wills, Ian.

Thomas Edisonsuccess and innovation through failure /[electronic resource] :by Ian Wills. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - vii, 257 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Studies in history and philosophy of science,v.520929-6425 ;. - Studies in history and philosophy of science ;v.28..

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$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-29940-8doiSubjects--Personal Names:

621016
Edison, Thomas A.
1847-1931.Subjects--Topical Terms:

437135
Inventors
--United States--Biography.

LC Class. No.: TK140.E3 / W55 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 621.3092

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