An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as...Lasīt vairāk
A missing two-cent cotter pin, smaller than a paperclip, can bring down a four-engine airliner and kill hundreds of people. In 1961, only 17 days and 17 miles apart, Trans World Airlines Flight 529 and Northwest Airlines Flight 706 suffered fat...Lasīt vairāk
From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuityand its attendant breakthroughs and busts.Included in BILL GATESs 2023 Holiday Reading List Included in Lit Hubs Most Anticipated B...Lasīt vairāk
The world might be a different place if people gave up on these transportation innovations after they first failed. Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a foc...Lasīt vairāk
Technology rules the world, but some tech products succeeded only after failure. Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a focus on persistence and creative thi...Lasīt vairāk
Technology rules the world, but some tech products succeeded only after failure. Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a focus on persistence and creative thin...Lasīt vairāk
The world might be a different place if people gave up on these transportation innovations after they first failed. Fantastic Failures: From Flops to Fortune takes readers through the unexpected origins of popular products and innovations. With a fo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Feb-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262048057)
Smil presents the long history and modern infatuation with invention and innovation. Meticulous as always, these vast realms of human ingenuity are organized into sensible categories: inventions that went from welcome to undesirable, inventions that...Lasīt vairāk
Technology is constantly changing the world we live in. But new tech doesnt always catch on right away, or even work like its supposed to. In fact, the history of technology is filled with failures and mistakesfrom computer bugs to an early ver...Lasīt vairāk
Technology is constantly changing the world we live in. But new tech doesnt always catch on right away, or even work like its supposed to. In fact, the history of technology is filled with failures and mistakesfrom computer bugs to an early ver...Lasīt vairāk
See some of the worlds greatest gadget disasters from the palm of your hand. Find out how each gadget failed, what went wrong with its design or manufacture, and what programmers learned from their mistakes....Lasīt vairāk
Many technologies begin life as someones vision of an ambitious, perhaps audacious, technology that is expected to have a revolutionary impact on consumers--whether families, companies, or societies. However, if that highly touted technology fails...Lasīt vairāk
Some epic fails are world famous. Many people have heard of the sinking of the Titanic and the burning of the Hindenburg. But not everyone knows about the Great Smog, a London-based air pollution disaster that took thousands of lives. Learn about so...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Jul-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262036511)
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : World's Worst: From Innovation to Disaster
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jul-2008, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Rosen Young Adult, ISBN-13: 9781404218376)
Describes the aircraft with the least success, including planes that were obsolete, based on ideas that did not work, powered by engines that were too weak, or had stability problems....Lasīt vairāk
