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It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies Bill Fawcett
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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
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 1, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780061358432 |
| Publishers | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Pages | 368 |
| Dimensions | 135 × 204 × 22 mm · 276 g |
| Language | English |
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