The award-winning, best-selling author of The Rational Optimist describes the history of innovation and how it differs from invention through lively stories about steam engines, jet engines, search engines, airships, coffee, potatoes, vaping, antibiotics and mosquito nets.
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ISBN: 0062916599
ISBN: 9780062916594
Physical Description:406 pages ; 24 cm.print
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Publisher:New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
General Note: "Originally published as How innovation works: serendipity, energy and the saving of time in Great Britain in 2020 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers"--Title page verso.