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Edison's Concrete Piano - Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors (Paperback)
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Edison's Concrete Piano - Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors (Paperback)
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Edison's Concrete Piano highlights the careers of famous inventors
-- revealing the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about
their careers, their wackier hobbies, and especially their big
flops and great successes. Take Thomas Edison for example, who
revolutionized our world with the light bulb, the phonograph, and
the forerunner to the movie camera. He also created a concrete
piano, a non-operational helicopter made from box kites and piano
wire, and a machine to speak to the dead. Edison was not the only
one to engineer a complete flop now and again; in fact, failure
amid greatness is the norm -- not the exception. Did you know that
Henry Ford followed his Model T success with a tractor that was
famous for killing its customers? Ever heard of a flying tank? Can
you imagine why physics genius Albert Einstein created a
refrigerator that howled like a banshee? Or what Nikola Tesla was
thinking when he tested his earthquake machine - in crowded
Manhattan? And how did Alexander Graham Bell, after inventing the
phone, pass the time on his sheep farm in Nova Scotia? From whole
scale improvements, like the assembly line, to those toilet bowl
caps, Edison's Concrete Piano covers it all. Written snapshots of
inventors through the ages to the current day are accompanied by
photographs and illustrations of their lives and their inventions.
Read about Edison, Tesla, DaVinci, Pupin, and Alexander Graham
Bell, alongside the inventors you've never considered -- the people
who are dreaming up many of the products you'll use every day. From
Alexander Graham Bell's multi-nippled sheep to Leonardo da Vinci's
walk-on-water shoes, these ludicrous ideas and faulty designs will
leave you with a smile on your face, and the reminder that even the
very best of us make mistakes.
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Imprint: |
Ecw Press,Canada
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
November 2009 |
First published: |
November 2009 |
Authors: |
Judy Wearing
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
270 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-55022-863-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-55022-863-3 |
Barcode: |
9781550228632 |
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