Forks, Phonographs and Hot Air Balloons: A Field Guide to Inventive Thinking

"Forks, Phonographs and Hot Air Balloons is a wonderfully engaging and truly important contribution to our understanding of invention, creativity, discovery and originality. Weber brilliantly dissects a familiar and simple-seeming artifact into many invisible conceptual components, revealing a subtle thread of human thoughts stretching far into the distant past.a gem is indeed what we have in this book."
-Douglas R. Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Godel, Escher, Bach