Inventions
Here are entered works on original devices or processes. Works on fundamental technological improvements or changes in materials, production methods, processes, organization, or management which increase efficiency and production are entered under Technological innovations.
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Broader term:Related term:Narrower terms:- Inventions -- Australia
- Inventions -- China
- Inventions -- Early works to 1800
- Inventions -- Fiction
- Inventions -- Germany
- Inventions -- History
- Inventions -- Humor
- Inventions -- Juvenile fiction
- Inventions -- Juvenile literature
- Inventions -- United States
- Inventions in art
- Inventions in literature
- Inventions, Employees'
- Patents and government-developed inventions
- Technology transfer
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Marvels of Modern Science (1910), by Paul Severing, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)- The Boyhood of an Inventor (1931), by C. Francis Jenkins (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Great Inventors and Their Inventions (1918), by Frank P. Bachman (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), by W. K.-L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson, illust. by R. F. Outcalt, L. Bauhan, and James Ricalton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Modern Industrial Progress (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1904), by Charles Henry Cochrane
- The Romance of Research (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., in cooperation with the Century of Progress Exposition, 1933), by L. V. Redman and A. V. H. Mory (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tomorrow's World: The Australian Initiative (HTML in Australia)
- The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Randall E. Stross (HTML at UC Press)
- The Century of Inventions (London: J. Murray, 1825), by Edward Somerset Worcester, ed. by Charles Frederick Partington (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The History of Many Memorable Things Lost, Which Were in Use Among the Ancients; and an Account of Many Excellent Things Found, Now in Use Among the Moderns, Both Natural and Artificial (2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for J. Nicholson, 1715), by Guido Panciroli
- The Disk: A Tale of Two Passions (Boston: Cupples, Upham and Co., 1884), by Edward A. Robinson and George A. Wall
- Vorpal Blade (included on the Claws That Catch Baen CD image; c2007), by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor
- Warp Speed (included on a Baen CD image), by Travis S. Taylor
- Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und Dessen Nachbildung (in German; Leipzig and Dresden: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1789), by Joseph Friedrich Racknitz (page images at HathiTrust)
- A History of Mechanical Inventions (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1929), by Abbott Payson Usher (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest, by Holland Thompson (Gutenberg text)
- The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, by Hero of Alexandria, ed. by Bennet Woodcroft, trans. by Joseph George Greenwood (illustrated HTML at The Hopkin Thomas Project)
- Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization, by Kevin Kelly (HTML and PDF with commentary at kk.org)
- Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1994), by Marc Linder
- The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Randall E. Stross (HTML at UC Press)
- The Golden Age of Patents: A Parody on Yankee Inventiveness (New York: F. A. Stokes and Brother, 1888), by Wallace Peck
- Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight: or, On the Border for Uncle Sam, by Victor Appleton
- The Young Folk's Book of Invention (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1926), by T. C. Bridges (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
- The Traveller: or, A Description of Various Wonders in Nature and Art (London: Religious Tract Society, 1839) (page images at Google)
- Innovation and Commercialization of Emerging Technologies (Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Information Systems Related to Technology Transfer: A Report on Federal Technology Transfer in the United States (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Federal Technology Transfer and the Human Genome Project (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Breakthrough Dividend: Israel Innovations in Biotechnology That Could Benefit Americans (c1995), by Irvin M. Asher, ed. by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard (HTML at Jewish Virtual Library)
- Dual-Use Technologies and Export Administration in the Post-Cold War Era (1994), by National Research Council Office of International Affairs (page images with commentary at NAP)
- High-Stakes Aviation: U.S.-Japan Technology Linkages in Transport Aircraft (1994), by National Research Council Office of International Affairs (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy (c2003), ed. by Wesley Marc Cohen and Stephen A. Merrill (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Korea's Strategy for Leadership in Research and Development (1997) (PDF at ta.doc.gov)
- Fueling Reform: Energy Technologies for the Former East Bloc (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Monitoring and Controlling the International Transfer of Technology (1998), by James Bonomo, Julia Lowell, John Pinder, Katharine Watkins Webb, Jessie Saul, Peter Cannon, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, and David M. Adamson (PDF files at rand.org)
- Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer Policies for the 1990s (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer Policies for the 1990s (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Safeguarding Defense Technology, Enabling Commerce: A New Balance in the New Economy (Washington: AEI Press, 2001), by Sean Cropsey (PDF at AEI)
- Export Controls and Nonproliferation Policy (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Nova Reperta: New Discoveries and Inventions (1999), by Johanna Drucker, illust. by Brad Freeman (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)
- Where the World is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Kim Savelson (PDF at Ohio State)
- Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer: Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of Society (c2013), ed. by Koichi Hishida (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
- Mathematical Sciences, Technology, and Economic Competitivenes (1991), ed. by James G. Glimm (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Controlling East-West Trade and Technology Transfer: Power, Politics, and Policies (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Gary K. Bertsch (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reviewing the Behavioral Science Knowledge Base on Technology Transfer, ed. by Thomas E. Backer, Susan L. David, and Gerald Soucy (PDF at NIH)
- Multinationals and the U.S. Technology Base: Final Report of the Multinationals Project (OTA-ITE-612; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Fueling Reform: Energy Technologies for the Former East Bloc (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Fueling Reform: Energy Technologies for the Former East Bloc (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer: Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of Society (c2013), ed. by Koichi Hishida (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
- Breakthrough Dividend: Israel Innovations in Biotechnology That Could Benefit Americans (c1995), by Irvin M. Asher, ed. by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard (HTML at Jewish Virtual Library)
- High-Stakes Aviation: U.S.-Japan Technology Linkages in Transport Aircraft (1994), by National Research Council Office of International Affairs (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Korea's Strategy for Leadership in Research and Development (1997) (PDF at ta.doc.gov)
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