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The people in this book set out to change the world with their brilliant new discovery or design. At best, they failed monumentally; at worse, they changed the world in ways for which no one will thank them. "History's Worst Inventions" is an entertaining look at the failures of celebrated inventors and less well-known (for good reason) pioneers. The book includes the parachute-overcoat (its inventor leapt from the Eiffel Tower to demonstrate it and plunged to his death), Trevethick's locomotive (too heavy for its rails and broke them), Soviet anti-tank dogs (with mines strapped to their backs, they turned on their owners and blew up an entire Red Army division) and TGN1412 (the drug which, in its 2006 clinical trial, nearly killed its test subjects). A compendium of cock-ups, "History's Worst Inventions" provides a clear warning - it's all too easy to go down in history as an idiot!

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities History General & world history

• Pełny tytuł: History's Worst Inventions
• Autor: Eric Chaline
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 256
• EAN: 9781847735058
• ISBN: 1847735053
• ID: 04286666
• Wydawca: IMM Lifestyle Books
• Waga: 674 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 175 × 18 mm
• Data wydania: 25. July 2009

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