Innovation as a Social Process

Klappentext

Elihu Thomson was a late-nineteenth-century American inventor who helped create the first electric lighting and power systems.

Inhalt
List of figures and tables; Editors' preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations used in footnotes; Introduction; 1. The cultivation of a scientific man; 2. Learning the craft of invention; 3. The Philadelphia partnership, 1879; 4. Frustration in New Britain, 1880 5. Success in Lynn: the Thomson-Houston electric company, 1883; 6. Maintaining the organization: product development at General Electric, 189200; Epilogue and conclusion; Index.