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- Seller Notes
- “Slight Creasing To Spine and Wear To Edges Of Pages”
- Book Title
- Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and
- ISBN
- 9781444732580
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'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the Gershwins' view that invention is fundamentally comic.' The Sunday Times Trevor Norton, who has been compared to Gerard Durrell and Bill Bryson, weaves an entertaining history with a seductive mix of eureka moments, disasters and dirty tricks. Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Lazlow Biro (ballpoint) was a sculptor and hypnotist, and Logie Baird (TV) sold boot polish. The inventor of the automatic telephone switchboard was an undertaker who believed the operator was diverting his calls to rival morticians so he decided to make all telephone operators redundant. Inventors are mavericks indifferent to conventional wisdom so critics were dismissive of even their best ideas: radio had 'no future,' electric light was 'an idiotic idea' and X-rays were 'a hoax.' Even so, the state of New Jersey moved to ban X-ray opera glasses. The head of the General Post Office rejected telephones as unneccesary as there were 'plenty of small boys to run messages.' Inventomania is a magical place where eccentrics are always in season and their stories are usually unbelievable - but rest assured, nothing has been invented.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN-13
9781444732580
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212541664
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Imagination and a Pile of Junk: a Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Science, Evolution, History
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
198 mm
Item Weight
302 g
Item Width
132 mm
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United Kingdom
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