Full name: Mistakes that Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions and How They Came to Be

Author: Charlotte Jones Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9786047749270 9780385320436 6047749275

This is a collection of 40 informative stories about the accidental inventions which have made our life more intresting: who has invented the french fries, are Cinderella's shoes really made of crystal, how is penicilin first manufactured, .. and much more. Illustrations by ai?a? ch? bi?n mo?n khoai ty chin ro?n, ?i gi?y cu?a Lo? Lem co? pha?i th't s la?m b ng thu?y tinh khng, thu?o penicilin. Illustrations by John O'Brien.Vietnamese translation is by a hard-working student named Nguyen Ngoc Minh Anh. Similar books: Accidents May Happen by Charlotte Foltz Jones How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson So You Want to Be an Inventor? by Judith St. George How to Invent Everything by Ryan North The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley The Radium Girls by Kate Moore The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski Phineas Gage by John Fleischman The Pinball Effect by James Burke The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean Uranium by Tom Zoellner Girls Think of Everything by Catherine Thimmesh Why Is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy How Invention Begins by John Lienhard Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe