@article{696215,
      recid = {696215},
      author = {Moon, F. C.,},
      title = {Social networks in the history of innovation and invention  [electronic resource]  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book integrates history of science and technology  with modern social network theory. Using examples from the  history of machines, as well as case studies from wireless,  radio and chaos theory, the author challenges the genius  model of invention. Network analysis concepts are presented  to demonstrate the societal nature of invention in areas  such as steam power, internal combustion engines, early  aviation, air conditioning and more. Using modern measures  of network theory, the author demonstrates that the social  networks of invention from the 19th and early 20th  centuries have similar characteristics to modern 21st C  networks such as the World Wide Web. The book provides  evidence that exponential growth in technical innovation is  linked to the growth of historical innovation networks.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/696215},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7528-2},
}