目次

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Edison and Failure Chapter.- 2. Success, Failure and Innovation: the Carbon Microphone.- Chapter 3. Failure and Success.- Chapter 4. Innovation and Systems.- Chapter 5. Innovation Must Fail.- Chapter 6. Catastrophic Failure.- Part II: Edison Science and Invention.- Chapter 7. Inventive Success: the Phonograph.- Chapter 8. Scientific Failure: Etheric Force.- Part III: Edison's World.- Chapter 9. Thomas Edison and Patents.- Chapter 10. The Edisonian Method: Trial and Error.- Part IV: Reversing Edison.- Chapter 11. Reverse Engineering.- Chapter 12. Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Notes.