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What the necessity mothers: energy shortage and the development of copper smelting furnaces, 1900-1980
An old adage tells us that necessity is the mother of invention. But if necessity were the prime mover of invention, why, then, there are so many really nifty technologies – say, antigravity – that would be obviously useful, yet … Continue reading
Posted in History of technology, Innovation, Scarcities and constraints
Tagged Copper, History of technology, PhD
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The unpublished notebooks of J. M. Korhonen 