Fawcett Bill:
It Looked Good On Paper

Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, And Engineering Follies

Harpercollins Publishers Inc (United States), 2009
Paperback, 320 pages
Size: 203x135 mm
ISBN: 9780061358432
ISBN-10: 0061358436

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It Looked Good On Paper

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.

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