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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schiffer, Michael B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Clinton Corners, New York : Eliot Werner Publications, Inc., [2019]
Subjects:
Inventions > History > Popular works.
New products > History > Popular works.
System failures (Engineering) > History > Popular works.
Errors > History.
Business failures > History.
Inventions > Histoire > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Pannes > Histoire > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Erreurs > Histoire.
Business failures.
Errors.
Inventions.
New products.
System failures (Engineering)
History.
Popular works.
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.

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