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The Fickle Finger - An Inventor's Lot (Paperback)
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The Fickle Finger - An Inventor's Lot (Paperback)
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Loot Price R358
Discovery Miles 3 580
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Success is a slippery, fickle thing. How much is down to luck,
being in the right place at the right time or knowing the right
people, and how much to innate talent? Why are some people less
successful than others? Taking as its frame of reference the
stories of fifty inventors who lost out on the fame that their
genius might otherwise have merited, The Fickle Finger examines
some of the reasons why they have languished in obscurity for so
long. It is a tale of prejudice, racial and sexual, societal
pressures, deficiencies in the patent system, gross errors of
judgment, and sheer bad luck. The pressures of battling the system
sometimes led to madness, penury and even suicide. And along the
way, there will be some surprises. Were the Wright Brothers really
the first men to fly in a powered machine? Did Galileo really
invent the telescope? Has a US President held a patent? How did
Albert Einstein hope to improve upon the fridge? Why was Benjamin T
Franklin denied a patent? Who gave away their invention for a
lifetime's supply of chocolate? The answers to these questions and
much more are to be found within this book. A lively, entertaining
and light-hearted investigation into the components of success, it
will give you plenty of food for thought.
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