Gadgets and inventions
By: Neil Morris
Series: Raintree freestyle; From fail to win! Learning from bad ideas; Raintree freestyle; From fail to win!
Publisher: Raintree; Raintree Hardbacks
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781406217650; 9781406219340
Subjects: Inventions; Juvenile literature
Description: This book counts down some ideas and inventions that were complete flops and others that have proved to be long-term successes. Find out about Thomas Edison's ideas for concrete furniture, the short-lived fad for paper clothing, the failures of the internet fridge, and more fascinating devices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lessons learned; title: Concrete furniture; title: Picturephone; title: Smell-o-vision; title: Talking toy; title: Household robot; title: Paper clothing; title: Vote recorder; title: Shaving device; title: Telemobiloscope; title: Internet fridge; title: Videodisc; title: Hubble Space Telescope.