Extraordinary inventions.
Subtitle: Bizarre ideas that never got off the ground
Publisher: Reader's Digest
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: invention
First sentence: Maxim, Bessemer, Edison and Marconi are names that all belong to the great tradition of invention, but even geniuses like them can go astray.
Table of contents: pagenum: 4
title: The Great Tradition; pagenum: 10
title: Inventions in Everyday Life; pagenum: 22
title: The World of Transport; pagenum: 36
title: Inventors at War; pagenum: 43
title: The Living Tradition