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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press in association with Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., ©2003.
Description:1 online resource (xix, 398 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation
Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11127749
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Other authors / contributors:Molella, Arthur P., 1944-
Bedi, Joyce.
ISBN:9780262280099
0262280094
0585480869
9780585480862
0262134276
9780262134279
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Essays by historians and practioners on how invention can benefit the environment. This ambitious book describes the many ways in which invention affects the environment (here defined broadly to include all forms of interaction between humans and nature). The book starts with nature itself and then leads readers to examine the built environment and then specific technologies in areas such as public health and energy. Each part focuses on a single environmental issue. Topics range widely, from the role of innovation in urban landscapes to the relationship among technological innovation, public health, and the environment. Each part features an essay by a historian, an essay by a practitioner, and a "portrait of innovation" describing an individual whose work has made a difference. The mixture of historians and practitioners is critical because statements about the environment inevitably measure present and future conditions against those of the past. Early in the industrial revolution, smoke stacks were symbols of prosperity; at its end they were regarded as signs of pollution. Historical examples can also lead to the rediscovery of an old technology, as in the revival of straw bale construction. As it explores the history of invention for the environment, the book suggests many new ways to put the past to use for the common good.
Other form:Print version: Inventing for the environment. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press in association with Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., ©2003 0262134276

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