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It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies
Bill Fawcett
It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies
Bill Fawcett
Includes military, scientific, commercial, and infrastructure disasters such as: The Lead water pipes of Rome; Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse; Edison's electrical folly; Betamax; Concorde crash; Hubble - A $2 billion telescope that didn't work; the Mars probe failures due to simple math mistakes; Cold Fusion; and, Ford Pinto.
320 pages
Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
Lançado | 1 de fevereiro de 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780061358432 |
Editoras | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
Páginas | 368 |
Dimensões | 135 × 204 × 22 mm · 276 g |
Idioma | English |
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