Abstract
“THE history of the development of the inventive faculty”, said Mason in his “Origin of Inventions”, “is the history of humanity”; while the term invention, used in its plain logical sense, he added, may be applied not only to mechanical devices but also to the processes of life, languages, fine art, social structures and functions, philosophies, formulæ, creeds and cults, all of which involve over and over again the same activities of mind.
A History of Mechanical Inventions.
By Prof. A. P. Usher. Pp. xi + 401. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1929.) 25s. net.
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A History of Mechanical Inventions . Nature 124, 905–906 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124905a0
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