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History's Worst Inventions

And the People Who Made Them
Auteur Eric Chaline
History's Worst Inventions
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History's Worst Inventions
History's Worst Inventions
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ISBN
9781847735058
Bindwijze
Paperback
Taal
Engels
Auteur
Eric Chaline
Uitgeverij
Imm Lifestyle Books
Jaar van uitgifte
2009
Aantal pagina’s
256

Waar gaat het over?

The people in this book set out to change the world with their brilliant new discovery or design. At best, they failed monumentally; at worse, they changed the world in ways for which no one will thank them. History's Worst Inventions is an entertaining look at the failures of celebrated inventors and less well-known (for good reason) pioneers. The book includes the parachute-overcoat (its inventor leapt from the Eiffel Tower to demonstrate it and plunged to his death), Trevethick's locomotive (too heavy for its rails and broke them), Soviet anti-tank dogs (with mines strapped to their backs, they turned on their owners and blew up an entire Red Army division) and TGN1412 (the drug which, in its 2006 clinical trial, nearly killed its test subjects). A compendium of cock-ups, History's Worst Inventions provides a clear warning - it's all too easy to go down in history as an idiot!
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