Edison's Concrete Piano Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-On-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors

Name: Edison's Concrete Piano Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-On-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
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ISBN: 9781550228632

ISBN-10: 1550228633

ISBN-13: 9781550228632

Edition: 2009

Authors: Judy Wearing

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Highlighting the careers of well-known inventors, this exploration of failure amid greatness reveals the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and their big flops alongside great successes. 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 Scotiadevising a multinippled sheep somewhere along the way. The ludicrous ideas and faulty designs housed in this volume will inspire…

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List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: ECW Press
Publication date: 11/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction Great Inventors and Failure


The Historic Age


Understand Physics


Leonarde da Vinci's Walk-on-Water Shoes: (1452-1519)


Start With a Good Idea


James Watt's Apparatus for Administering Medicinal Airs: (1736-1819)


Write it Down


Robert Hooke's Flying Machine Powered by Artificial Muscle: (1635-1703)


The Golden Age


Give People What They Want


Thomas Edison's Concrete Piano: (1847-1931)


Try not to be Too Weird


Nikola Tesla's Earthquake Machine: 1856-1943)


Don't kill Your Customers


Henry Ford's Flipping Fordson: (1863-1947)


Be on the Side of the Successful


George Washington Carver's Miracle Peanut Cure: (1864-1947)


Be Sure the Market is Ready


Alexander Graham Bell's Six-Nippled Sheep: (1847-1922)


Have Adequate Funding


Elihu Thomson's Quartz Telescope Mirror: (1853-1937)


The Modern Era


Pay Attention to Details


Danny Willis Paint Can Robot: (1956-)


Be Agreeable


J. Walter Christie's Flying Tank: (1865-1944)


Make Sure You Aren't the Only One Who Thinks It's a Good Idea


George Davison's Popcorn Volcano: (1963-)


Please the Buyers and the Sellers


Jerome Lemelson's Flying Balloon: (1922-1997)


Stick to What Know, Mostly


Stanley Mason's Chinese Tallow Tree Plantation: (1921-2005)


Avoid Accidents


Buckminster Fuller's Fish-Shaped People Carrier: (1895-1983)


Have Perfect Timing


Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein's Howling Refrigerator: (1898-1964 and 1879-1955)


Endnotes