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Cover of Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor

Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor

Temple Grandin, with Betsy Lerner

Temple Grandin explores questions about how everyday objects and natural phenomena work, including flying kites, floating boats, symmetrical snowflakes, and dimpled golf balls. The book also considers hands-on design projects such as making a kaleidoscope and building stilts. Personal accounts connected to design work appear alongside information about patents and inventors from varied backgrounds. Detailed illustrations and photographs support its look at ideas, making, and invention.

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Themes
Art And Creativity · Inventions · Science · Technology And Engineering
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-13
9781524738204
Language
English
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