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White Elephant Technology: 50 Crazy Inventions That Should Never Have Been Built, and What We Can Learn from Them - Hardcover

Geoghegan, John J.

 
9781803990149: White Elephant Technology: 50 Crazy Inventions That Should Never Have Been Built, and What We Can Learn from Them
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1803990147 ISBN 13: 9781803990149
Verlag: The History Press Ltd, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

A humorous look back over 50 inventions that should never have been built!

The majority of commercial ventures might end in failure, but the world would be a poorer place without invention.

This is the story of 50 truly remarkable inventions, from personal helicopters to ‘swimming’ tanks; from flying aircraft carriers (that kept crashing) to a pedal-powered blimp you could barely steer; from an aerial rowing boat you couldn’t navigate to a portable nuclear weapon that killed the men who fired it… these inventions were not only misguided, but demonstrate their inventors’ remarkable gift for out-of-the-box thinking nobody ever asked for. Most importantly, every single one was built, field tested, and worked (more or less) as planned, even when their inventor died in the test phase.

Full of surprises, this is a fun and fast-paced journey through the world of WETech that will make you shake your head in wonder. What in the world were they thinking?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

JOHN J. GEOGHEGAN is a journalist, author, and editor who specializes in reporting on White Elephant Technology. His articles have appeared in the New York Times Science section, WIRED, Popular Science, and the Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine, and he has featured in a number of interviews and documentaries. He has previously written When Giants Ruled the Sky for The History Press, and Operation Storm: Japan’s Top Secret Submarines and Their Plan to Change the Course of WWII (Crown, 2013), both on WETech inventions. He lives in Novato, California.

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Verlag
The History Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1803990147
ISBN 13 
9781803990149
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
206
Herausgeber
Miles Eric
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