Spectacular flops : game-changing technologies that failed /
"Many technologies begin life as someone's 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 "prematurely" at some point in...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Clinton Corners, New York :
Eliot Werner Publications, Inc.,
[2019]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Understanding technological failures
- Secret project : Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot and the first automobile
- Too little, too late : the atmospheric railway
- Putting electromagnetism to work
- Audacious engineer : Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Eastern steamship
- Ferdinand de Lesseps' Panama Canal
- Crackpot invention? Nikola Tesla's world system
- Visionary inventor : R. Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion world
- The nuclear-powered bomber
- Domesticating the bomb : "Geographical engineering" and Project Chariot
- Chrysler's turbojet-powered automobile
- The Concorde : supersonic airliner
- Fusion, hot and cold
- Conclusion : several limited generalizations.