Inventing the Future E-Book

Sarah Miller Caldicott

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Thomas Edison holds over a thousand patents in his name, including the electric light bulb, the phonograph, and motion picture camera. He is considered among the world's most prolific inventors, with a work ethic and vision for the future that helped change the modern world. And with all of the advances in current technology that he helped to invent, just imagine: What Would Thomas Edison Be Doing Today?

Author Sarah Miller Caldicott, a great-grandniece of Edison and expert in his methods, sets out to answer just that. Inventing the Future is a well-researched, intriguing look at how Edison would innovate today using new technology, and how modern day thinkers can adapt his proven innovation methods to their advantage. It also includes 7 steps anyone can take to start thinking like an innovator, and offers a hands-on view of how creativity and risk-taking come together to design powerful concepts that create new markets.

Learn the strategies needed to remove innovation barriers, begin driving the breakthroughs of the future, and change the way you do business. Stimulate your ability to imagine what's possible.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1: Growing Up with Thomas Edison

Chapter 2: The Edison Top 10

#1. Menlo Park Research and Development Laboratory

#2. Carbon Button Transmitter

#3. The Edison Phonograph

#4. The Incandescent Electric Light

#5. System of Electrical Power

#6. The West Orange Industrial Research Laboratory

#7. The Movies

#8. The Edison Fluoroscope

#9. Portland Cement

#10. The Storage Battery

Chapter 3: What Would Thomas Edison Be Doing Today?

Chapter 4: Seven Steps to Becoming a Futuristae

Chapter 5: Resources and Special Acknowledgments

Copyright © 2011 by Sarah Miller Caldicott. All rights reserved.

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ISBN: 978-1-118-21986-7 (ePub)

ISBN: 978-1-118-21987-4 (eMobi)

This ebook is dedicated to Dr. Paul Israel and the staff of The Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University. Your tireless efforts have transformed the world's ability to understand the timeless innovation methods of America's greatest inventor and innovator.

Introduction

What does it take to inspire innovation in twenty-first-century organizations? What are the qualities of a successful innovator? These are important questions that many businesses are asking following the dramatic economic downturns experienced in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Heralded by many as the fourth economic revolution in human history, we find ourselves standing awkwardly in the Innovation Age. Following the epic shifts of the Agrarian Age, the Industrial Age, and the Information Age, the Innovation Age commenced a few years after the turn of the millennium—the same window of time that I awakened to an extraordinary innovation twist in my family tree.