SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hot Air Balloon, Wright Brothers, Baby Bottle
1 Feb 2019
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Archimedes: archimedes (287 bc- c. 212 bc, greek mathematician, physicist and engineer. Housing and married life under a roof. A tool and an exemplary artefact: the bathtub. Different mores or moral conceptions of what is socially acceptable. All of these play a part in this tale. Invention is not a matter of inspiration in which a new device emerges, it is a creative and imaginative process but lies in extending the scopes of techniques from one area to another. By mappig social, cognitive and meterial gound in which inventions. Phonograph, electric light bulb, direct current (dc), etc. Holds 1,093 u. s. patents to his name (+ in the uk, france & germany) Invention was not personal genius to him but just hard work. Light bulb designed not as an isolated device but as a part of a system of electricity generation and distribution: had to keep costs as low as possible to compete with gas-lighting systems.
