TY - BOOK ID - 77878179 TI - Forks, phonographs, and hot air balloons : a field guide to inventive thinking PY - 1992 SN - 1280605472 9786610605477 0198022875 9780198022879 019506402X 9780195064025 019506402X 0197735487 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Inventions. KW - Creative thinking. KW - Creative thinking (Education) KW - Creative ability KW - Thought and thinking KW - Creative ability in technology KW - Prior art (Patent law) KW - Research, Industrial UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77878179 AB - Drawing on hundreds of examples, this study of human ingenuity argues that all inventions are the result of the same basic principles rather than random inspiration. The author, a cognitive psychologist, reveals the mind's capacity for problem-solving from the Stone Age to the present day. ER -