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  title info:
    title: Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure
  name:
    name part: Wills, Ian.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 257 p. 75 illus., 27 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Ian Wills.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Technology-History
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Industrial management
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Technology
  subject:
    topic: History of Technology
  subject:
    topic: Innovation/Technology Management
  classification: B53
  classification: 601
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 52
  identifier: 9783030299408
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29940-8
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    record creation date: 200101
    record change date: 20200101115013.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-29940-8