Robert D. Friedel
Autor de Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty (Reprint)
Sobre El Autor
Robert Friedel is a professor of the history and technology of science at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent book is A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. Paul Israel is the director and general editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers, The mostrar más State University of New Jersey. He is the author of Edison: A Life of Invention and the coeditor of the multivolume The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, also published by Johns Hopkins. mostrar menos
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- Friedel, Robert D.
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- male
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- Johns Hopkins University (PhD)
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This is a history of technology and of what it takes for technology to be adopted and become successful. It describes many attempts to make zips that basically just didn't work - and yet some of them were financially successful. What's also fascinating for the modern reader is that the original applications weren't ones that we see as key uses of the zip today (although zip purses are still a common use, overshoes certainly aren't for most of us.) The patent battles, company takeovers, sales techniques, advances in design and the popular perceptions of the zip through the years are all well described, and the book is also well-referenced. The book perhaps concentrates a little too much on the American perspective, although the rival European patent is discussed as are some of the early overseas licensing deals.
It's flawed in parts and at times it is dense reading, but overall this does a good job of achieving what it sets out to do. It's also excellent source reading for anyone generally interested in the general issues of adoption of technology in the consumer world.… (más)