Edison's Concrete Piano Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
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31.10.2009
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ECW PressSeitenzahl
272 (Printausgabe)
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Englisch
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9781554905515
Not even geniuses get it right the first time... An "entertaining" look at the failures of great inventors (
Booklist).
To achieve great things, you have to be willing to take risks-and as
Edison's Concrete Piano reveals, some of the most famous names in history experienced plenty of flops and face-plants in the course of their careers. Thomas Edison, for example, not only revolutionized the world with the light bulb, but also designed a concrete piano, a nonoperational helicopter made from box kites and piano wire, and a machine to speak to the dead. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, actually devoted most of his time to his sheep farm in Nova Scotia-devising a multi-nippled sheep somewhere along the way. You'll also read about Leonardo da Vinci's walk-on-water shoes, George Washington Carver's miracle peanut cure, and much more. The ludicrous ideas, faulty designs, and offbeat hobbies in this volume will inspire laughs-and serve as a reminder that even the very best minds make mistakes.
"Captivating... This book is full of lessons for inventors and non-inventors alike." -Henry Petroski, author of
Success through Failure
Booklist).
To achieve great things, you have to be willing to take risks-and as
Edison's Concrete Piano reveals, some of the most famous names in history experienced plenty of flops and face-plants in the course of their careers. Thomas Edison, for example, not only revolutionized the world with the light bulb, but also designed a concrete piano, a nonoperational helicopter made from box kites and piano wire, and a machine to speak to the dead. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, actually devoted most of his time to his sheep farm in Nova Scotia-devising a multi-nippled sheep somewhere along the way. You'll also read about Leonardo da Vinci's walk-on-water shoes, George Washington Carver's miracle peanut cure, and much more. The ludicrous ideas, faulty designs, and offbeat hobbies in this volume will inspire laughs-and serve as a reminder that even the very best minds make mistakes.
"Captivating... This book is full of lessons for inventors and non-inventors alike." -Henry Petroski, author of
Success through Failure
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