FT on Invention

Lovely review of Invention by John Gapper in today's Financial Times:

Johnson's biography, with its digressions into theories of scientific and


cultural progress, and tales of Priestley's experiments, feels almost as


full of ingenuity and as delightful as its subject. It fizzes with


exposition, anecdote, and intellectual asides.

I just noticed that the Amazon page for the book has been updated with a collection of quotes from the reviews. Always exciting to see them all strung together. I've