Eureka! - Great Inventors and Their Brilliant Brainwaves

EUREKA! BOOK DESCRIPTION In Hollywood biopics, inspiration strikes great inventors like a bolt of lightning. An accident, a random thought, an apparently unconnected remark - any of these things can provide the trigger that the screen hero of heroine needs to perfect an invention. The movies make it seem all too easy, of course, but a surprising number of inventions really have sprung from just such a "eureka" moment. This title looks at the instances when some of the world's greatest inventions were conceived. It demonstrates how sheer creative genius enables a few lucky individuals to look right through the problem, and come