The Story of an Invention: Flaws on the Spine or Cover (Bilingual Chinese-English Edition)

Author: (American) Langdon Winner
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: When you think of inventions, you might immediately think of airplanes, trains, but this book is about the basic inventions: a piece of clothing, a rope, a bridge, a bowl, and other things that seem extremely simple today, but at first were not easy to invent. Ordinary animals also have simple "inventions," but human inventions are worlds apart from theirs. Under the harsh pressures of the environment, humans have done their best to use their brains, gradually learning to infinitely expand the power hidden in their body organs such as hands, feet, mouths, eyes, and ears. For example, using sticks to expand the power of the hands, using wheels to extend the function of the feet, and using flying machines to pull the human body into the air. These inventions and creations are actually extensions of the human body. From finding a piece of animal hide, a cave for shelter and warmth, to building houses and inventing various machines, how did humans create these miracles? Langdon Winner skillfully tells the secrets of human inventions. The concise and beautiful English and the faithful and fluent Chinese translation, coupled with illustrations drawn by Langdon Winner himself, will bring you endless joy in reading. We are neither slaves nor masters. We enhanced the abilities of our hands, feet, eyes, and ears to gain freedom. We created inanimate things to serve us, but suddenly found ourselves constrained by them. But this doesn't mean we shouldn't have tried to enhance our abilities before. It only means we haven't enhanced them enough enough. — Langdon Winner