Paperback, 352 pages
English language
Published Aug. 1, 1997 by Back Bay Books.
The Pinball Effect
How Renaissance Water Gardens Made Carburetor Possible - and Other Journeys
by James Burke
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The pinball effect is a metaphor of the seemingly random routes a pinball traces. Human knowledge will unadvertedly unleash unexpected consecuences: new inventions or discoveries now possible because someone shared an idea.
Subjects
- History of science
- Science
- History - General History
- Biography/Autobiography
- Science/Mathematics
- General
- History
- World - General
- Science / History
- Inventions