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Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 22)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7528-2

ISBN: 978-94-007-7527-5

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Nov 15, 2013

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Introduction: James Watt’s Social Network

Moon, Francis

Pages: 1 –32

[We introduce ideas from network and graph theory and apply them to the evolution and network of contributions of the steam engine. Also discussed are models of growth of social networks, exponential growth and the ’S’ curve. This chapter also reviews earlier work on evolution, diffusion and...
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Networks in the Machine Age: From Leonardo to Clocks to Reuleaux

Moon, Francis

Pages: 33 –64

[We apply a network analysis to the history of kinematics theory of machine design from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries beginning with Leonardo da Vinci. As a particular example we construct a network chart for the evolution of precision marine clocks. We also look at the social network...
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Social Networks of the Internal Combustion Engine and Automobile

Moon, Francis

Pages: 65 –84

[We describe the network of contributors to the creation of the internal combustion engine and its effects on the early automotive industry. This example has links to the aviation network of invention [Chap. 4] as well as to mathematical Chaos Theory [Chap. 6]]
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Social Networks in Early Aviation History

Moon, Francis

Pages: 85 –109

[We describe a network of over 80 individuals and institutions covering the period of 1810–1910 from the time of George Cayley to the Wright brothers. This case study will provide examples of the importance of ’weak links’ and the role of what Gladwell calls ’Connectors’ such as Octave Chanute....
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Wireless and Radio Electronics Social Networks

Moon, Francis

Pages: 111 –133

[The seeds of wireless telegraphy grew out of the network surrounding the magnetic-mechanical telegraph. In addition to Marconi, Deforest and Armstrong, there was a complex set of up to fifty players spanning the work of Maxwell (1865) to the early days of radio and RCA’s David Sarnoff in the...
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Social Networks in Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos and Fractals

Moon, Francis

Pages: 135 –162

[We show how the seeds of twentieth century mathematical Chaos Theory grew in the networks associated with the internal combustion engine and radio electronics. We trace the mathematical discoveries of Henri Poincare in France at the beginning of the twentieth century to the fluid mechanics...
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The Last Hero-Inventor: A Theory of Innovation?

Moon, Francis

Pages: 163 –184

[In our last iconoclastic example of the genius-inventor we construct a social network for Willis Carrier and the beginnings of air conditioning technology. In a summary of exponential knowledge growth in other technologies, we draw the conclusion that human patterns of innovation have been...

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