Reading:  Inventing for Fun and Profit, by Jacob Rabinow (San Francisco Press, 1990; OOP, of course).

Recommended by Dan the Red ( http://come-to-think.livejournal.com/28784.html#comments), it is indeed a lovely book, and joins on well to The Design of Design.  The author, who accumulated 230 US patents on an astonishing variety of mechanical, ( Read more... )