Are Inventions Inevitable? A Note on Social Evolution

Citation: William Ogburn, Dorothy Thomas (1922) Are Inventions Inevitable? A Note on Social Evolution. Political Science Quarterly (RSS)
DOI (original publisher): 10.2307/2142320
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Inevitable if preconditions are in place, unknowable in advance, and not dependent upon single inventor. Based largely on a list of 148 inventions with multiple independent inventors more or less at the same time.