TY - BOOK AU - Thring, M. W. AU - Laithwaite, E.R. TI - How to invent SN - 333177940 AV - T 15 .T47 1977 PY - 1977/// CY - [London] PB - Macmillan Publishing Company KW - INVENTIONS N1 - Includes index; 1. What is 'invention' and can it be taught? -- 2. Some historic inventions and inventors -- 3. What needs inventing? -- 4. The art of the inventor -- 5. Physical thinking -- 6. Engineering and nature study -- 7. Thinking with the hands -- 8. Teaching invention -- 9. Developing and patenting an invention -- 9. Developing and patenting an invention -- 10. Some of our inventions N2 - The primary objective of this book is to give people who have a spark of creativity in them the possibility of using this spark to invent practical useful objects ER -