 | They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators by Harold Evans
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $1.39 My all time favorite innovation book - a superb book of past glories and successes of innovators in the US
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 | Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $3.92 Who would have known that common salt used to be a hotbed of innovation?
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 | The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Until this map was made, the earth was flat and nothing of importance lay below - this man's struggle changed the world
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 | Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Buy used from: $0.01 It makes me made to think that a genius had to fight so long and so hard - and yet, the results changed shipping for ever
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 | The Fruits of War: How Military Conflict Accelerates Technology by Michael White
Buy used from: $22.97 Yes, war is terrible, but it also has been an eternal spur to innovation and creativity
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 | Brand New : How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell by Nancy F. Koehn
Buy new: $29.16 / Used from: $1.65 The innovators and company builders of yesteryear were just as innovative as we are today. Someone had to invent cost-based accounting, after all (Wedgewood)
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 | Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America by Walter A. Friedman
Buy new: $19.50 / Used from: $11.00 Fascinating story of how a new profession emerged, from travelling sales people to the professionals of GE and IBM.
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 | Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, And Pyrotechnics: The History Of The Explosive That Changed The World by Jack Kelly
Buy used from: $9.00 This is an amazing story of innovation - how the recipe came about, how the knowledge disseminated, how one invention created the need for another, etc. The stories are good too!
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 | The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat: The Remarkable True Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax
Buy used from: $13.19 I am always intrigued to learn more - a couple of paragraphs in the Fruits of War book lead me to the real story on penicillin - great read
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 | Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of Xerox by David Owen
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $0.01 I loved this book - it really puts beakthrough innovation into perspective - be prepared to wait several years for (possible) success
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 | Rising Tide : Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble by Davis Dyer
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $0.45 Excellent history of a serial innovator - you will learn a lot by reading this book.
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