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

Wearing, Judy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550228633 ISBN 13: 9781550228632

Verlag: ECW Press,Canada, 2009

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"Judy Wearing has written a captivating book on success and failure . . . This book is full of lessons for inventors and non-inventors alike." --Henry Petroski, author, "Success through Failure"

"This book sparkles with heaps of ideas, some plain bonkers, others, like the car, more pedestrian. . . . This book is fun and full of quirks . . . a fine yarn." --"Waikato Times"

"Best Book Title of the Year?: The popular science is fun and easily accessible, and there's more to the inventor's experiments than the title can contain." -- "Los Angeles Times Jacket Copy"

"[Wearing's] background as a science educator is advantageous in this entertaining piece of popular science: she portrays lively personalities and eccentric projects in concrete prose." "--Booklist"

Reseña del editor:

Looks at the failed inventions by such notable inventors as Thomas Edison, James Watt, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, George Davison, and Buckminster Fuller.

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• Verlag: ECW Press,Canada
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1550228633
• ISBN 13: 9781550228632
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270