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Edison's Concrete Piano: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
By Judy Wearing
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By Judy Wearing
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Not even geniuses get it right the first time . . . An "entertaining" look at the failures of great inventors (Booklist).
To achieve great things, you have to be willing to take risks—and as Edison's Concrete Piano reveals, some of the most famous names in history experienced plenty of flops and face-plants in the course of their careers. Thomas Edison, for example, not only revolutionized the world with the light bulb, but also designed a concrete piano, a nonoperational helicopter mad...