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Description:A remarkable compendium of wild schemes, mad plans, crazy inventions, and truly glorious disastersEvery phenomenally bad idea seemed like a good idea to someone. How else can you explain the Ford Edsel or the sword pistol—absolutely absurd creations that should have never made it off the drawing board? It Looked Good on Paper gathers together the most flawed plans, half-baked ideas, and downright ridiculous machines throughout history that some second-rate Einstein decided to foist on an unsuspecting populace with the best and most optimistic intentions. Some failed spectacularly. Others fizzled after great expense. One even crashed on Mars. But every one of them at one time must have looked good on paper, The lead water pipes of RomeThe Tacoma Narrows Bridge—built to collapseThe Hubble telescope—the $2 billion scientific marvel that couldn't seeThe Spruce Goose—Howard Hughes's airborne big, expensive, slow, unstable, and made of woodWith more than thirty-five chapters full of incredibly insipid inventions, both infamous and obscure, It Looked Good on Paper is a mind-boggling, endlessly entertaining collection of fascinating failures.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies – A Remarkable Collection of Glorious Failures and Absurd Machines. To get started finding It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies – A Remarkable Collection of Glorious Failures and Absurd Machines, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A remarkable compendium of wild schemes, mad plans, crazy inventions, and truly glorious disastersEvery phenomenally bad idea seemed like a good idea to someone. How else can you explain the Ford Edsel or the sword pistol—absolutely absurd creations that should have never made it off the drawing board? It Looked Good on Paper gathers together the most flawed plans, half-baked ideas, and downright ridiculous machines throughout history that some second-rate Einstein decided to foist on an unsuspecting populace with the best and most optimistic intentions. Some failed spectacularly. Others fizzled after great expense. One even crashed on Mars. But every one of them at one time must have looked good on paper, The lead water pipes of RomeThe Tacoma Narrows Bridge—built to collapseThe Hubble telescope—the $2 billion scientific marvel that couldn't seeThe Spruce Goose—Howard Hughes's airborne big, expensive, slow, unstable, and made of woodWith more than thirty-five chapters full of incredibly insipid inventions, both infamous and obscure, It Looked Good on Paper is a mind-boggling, endlessly entertaining collection of fascinating failures.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies – A Remarkable Collection of Glorious Failures and Absurd Machines. To get started finding It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies – A Remarkable Collection of Glorious Failures and Absurd Machines, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies – A Remarkable Collection of Glorious Failures and Absurd Machines

It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies – A Remarkable Collection of Glorious Failures and Absurd Machines

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