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Pigeon Guided Missiles - And 49 Other Ideas that Never Took Off (Hardcover)
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Pigeon Guided Missiles - And 49 Other Ideas that Never Took Off (Hardcover)
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List price R412
Loot Price R339
Discovery Miles 3 390
You Save R73 (18%)
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During the Second World War, an American behavioural psychologist
working with pigeons discovered that the birds could be trained to
recognise an object and to peck at an image of it; when loaded into
the nose-cone of a missile, these pecks could be translated into
adjustments to the guidance fins, steering the projectile to its
target. Pigeon-Guided Missiles reveals this and other fascinating
tales of daring plans from history destined to change the world we
live in, yet which ended in failure, or even disaster. Some became
the victims of the eccentric figures behind them, others succumbed
to financial and political misfortune, and a few were just too far
ahead of their time. Discover why the great groundnut scheme cost
British taxpayers GBP49 million, why the bid to build Minerva, a
whole new country in the Pacific Ocean, sank, and why the first
Channel Tunnel (started in 1881, over a century before the one we
know today) hit a dead end.
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