Inventing for the Environment

Neuausgabe 2003
ISBN: 978-0-262-13427-9
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC

Buch, Englisch, 418 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 835 g

Reihe: Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series

This ambitious book describes the many ways in which invention affects the
environment (here defined broadly to include all forms of interaction between humans and nature).
The book starts with nature itself and then leads readers to examine the built environment and then
specific technologies in areas such as public health and energy.Each part focuses on a single
environmental issue. Topics range widely, from the role of innovation in urban landscapes to the
relationship among technological innovation, public health, and the environment. Each part features
an essay by a historian, an essay by a practitioner, and a "portrait of innovation" describing an
individual whose work has made a difference. The mixture of historians and practitioners is critical
because statements about the environment inevitably measure present and future conditions against
those of the past. Early in the industrial revolution, smoke stacks were symbols of prosperity; at
its end they were regarded as signs of pollution. Historical examples can also lead to the
rediscovery of an old technology, as in the revival of straw bale construction. As it explores the
history of invention for the environment, the book suggests many new ways to put the past to use for
the common good.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Molella, Arthur

Molella, Arthur P.

Bedi, Joyce

Sternlieb, Arthur P.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nanotechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Molella, Arthur P.
Arthur P. Molella is Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Director of the Smithsonian Institution's
Lemelson Center. He is the co-editor (with Joyce Bedi) of Inventing for the
Environment (2003, MIT Press).

Bedi, Joyce
Joyce Bedi is Senior Historian at the Smithsonian Institution's Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson
Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.

Arthur P. Molella is Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center. He is the author of "Exhibiting Atomic Culture: The View from Oak Ridge" and the coeditor (with Joyce Bedi) of Inventing for the Environment (MIT Press).