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Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry : A CBO Study
Congressional Budget Office (U S )
Paperback - $22.95
Disruptive Devices : The Risks & Rewards of Highly Innovative Concepts and Technologies
Richard Crangle
Paperback - $27.95
Disruptive Devices, provides broad and specific information regarding the most significant ideas, technological and scientific innovations developed over many centuries. It explores and analyzes the social, intellectual and economic environments that ...
Who Invented What When
David Ellyard
Paperback - $23.95
Who Invented What When covers over 500 years of inventions, from the first pocket-watch to the latest biotechnology, and all the big, and not so big, inventions in between. Arranged in chronological order, each new invention is described in context o ...
The Gecko's Foot : Bio- Inspiration
Peter Forbes
Hardcover - $39.95
In Forbes's engaging book readers discover the many ways nature has yielded inventions. For instance, the spiny fruits of the cocklebur inspired the hook-and-loop fastener known as Velcro(; and cantilever bridges have much in common with bison spines ...
Gadget Nation : A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention
Steve Greenberg
Hardcover - $30.95
Gadget geeks, design buffs, hobbyists, and anyone interested in how things work: this is required reading! Featuring more than 100 quirky innovations from “ garage inventors” across the nation, this visual showcase captures America’ ...
The Book of Inventions
Ian Harrison
Hardcover - $44.95
Harrison takes readers on a wild ride through the history of the gadgets and gizmos people use every day.
The Inventor - His World and His Inventions
H. Stafford Stafford Hatfield
Paperback - $62.95
Originally published in the early 1930s. The book explains what invention really is, and the extent to which actual creation plays a part in it. It discusses the inventor himself and the intelligence and peculiar qualities which make him an inventor. ...
Patents : Ingenioius Inventions
Ben Ikenson
Hardcover - $30.95
Covered in bubble wrap--one of man's more ingenious creations--this overview of ingenious inventions gives the purpose, backgrounds about the inventors, interesting sidebars and history, and excerpts from original patent applications.