Topic
inventions
- Lessons from the Invention of the Thermometer
This piece from Anton Howes gets at one of the key insights about how innovation works: it doesn't happen through sudden bursts of insight from thin air — it requires the combination of the right simmering ingredients…
- Inventing on Principle
I refreshed myself this evening on Bret Victor’s amazing talk from 2012, “Inventing on Principle.” {% include video-vimeo.html id="36579366" %} He’s been working on and promoting his ideas on interactive, responsive t…
- Why Did We Wait So Long for the Bicycle?
Roots of Progress has an interesting deep dive on why it took so long for a (relatively) simple invention of the bicycle, even in a time when the principles of a bicycle's components were well understood for a long ti…