The Patent Files: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Invention - Softcover

Lindsay, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585740721 ISBN 13: 9781585740727

Publisher: The Lyons Press, 2001

Synopsis

Here in all its eccentricity, is the cutting edge of science: a magnetic train that requires no outside energy source; solar-powered interplanetary travel; an air-purifying helmet; and a device to reduce radioactivity. And just as engrossing is the eccentricity of the invention subculture. Always lurking in the background - and occasionally dominating the foreground - are the fundamental issues that the scientific avant-garde inevitably confronts: the nature of knowledge, the meaning of thought, the essence of senses, the sanctity of life, the existence of God...all of which leads to the fascinating final chapter, in which the author attempts - and fails - to patent himself.

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Here in all its eccentricity is the cutting edge of science: a magnetic train that requires no outside energy source; solar-powered interplanetary travel; an air-purifying helmet; and a device to reduce radioactivity. And just as engrossing is the eccentricity of the invention subculture. Always lurking in the background - and occasionally dominating the foreground - are the fundamental issues that the scientific avant-garde inevitably confronts: the nature of knowledge, the meaning of thought, the essence of senses, the sanctity of life, the existence of God...all of which leads to the fascinating final chapter, in which the author attempts - and fails - to patent himself.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585740721
• ISBN 13: 9781585740727
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248