I know I invent them, but I am never aware of any process of invention.
Made with colored ink to which she had applied gold and silver dust, a process of her own invention, the delicate shapes sparkled and changed their hues as one walked around them.
Why is it that, when we invent characters, the process of invention involves an excavation from the subconscious, as if we were trying to remember someone we knew decades ago; while when we write of people we know, we see them in our imagination as independent entities who are essentially strangers to us?
The "most powerful idea" of his title is not an early locomotive: "The Industrial Revolution was, first and foremost, a revolution in invention," he writes, "a radical transformation in the process of invention itself".
Yet Mr. Kemper used his access well to write a fascinating account of the messy process of invention and bringing an innovative product to the marketplace.
Rae's interest in capital goods and in natural science led to a detailed discussion of the process of invention.
It seems to me that neither Newman, Rothko nor Pollock was possessed of remarkable natural facility, yet each went on to achieve far more than, say, Adolf Gottlieb, William Baziotes or Robert Motherwell, whose adept and characterful draughtsmanship and feel for their materials made the process of invention a less urgent and precipitous task.
Engaging anecdotes abound, but a new treatise on the process of invention falls short on actionable advice.
Hindle (1981) concluded that the educational methods of the nineteenth century played a crucial role in the process of invention and innovation.
