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25 Mo

Have you ever wondered what went wrong when inventions, structures and technology failed spectacularly? This series provides exciting, cross-curricular, high interest reads into ideas and projects from around the world that did not work as planned.

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Date de parution

15 juin 2012

EAN13

9781406255362

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English

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25 Mo

From Fail to Win! Learning from Bad Ideas

TRANSPORT

Neil Morris

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Edited by Andrew Farrow and Vaarunika Dharmapala Designed by Richard Parker Original illustrations © Capstone Global Library Ltd 2011 Illustrated by Jeff Edwards Picture research by Mica Brancic Originated by Capstone Global Library Ltd Printed and bound in China by South China Printing Company Ltd

ISBN 978 1 406 21766 7 (hardback) 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication DataMorris, Neil. From fail to win : learning from bad ideas. Transport. 388dc22 A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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Lessons learned................................................................................ 4 Sinclair C5....................................................................................... 6 Jet pack............................................................................................. 8 The Mizar ...................................................................................... 10 Ford Nucleon................................................................................. 13 Langley’s Aerodrome ..................................................................... 15 Concorde ....................................................................................... 18 Tupolev Tu144.............................................................................. 22 Cugnot’s steam cart........................................................................ 26 Apollo 1.......................................................................................... 30 “Spruce Goose” ............................................................................. 34 Hindenburg.................................................................................... 38 Titanic............................................................................................ 43 Timeline ........................................................................................ 50 Glossary.......................................................................................... 52 Find out more................................................................................ 54 Index .............................................................................................. 56

Any words appearing in the text in bold,like this, are explained in the glossary

Lessons learned

Technology has come a long way since theIndustrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, making transport a pleasure instead of a pain. Most of today’s forms of transport are fast, convenient, and comfortable. People travel all over the world without giving it much thought. A huge network of transport routes covers the globe on the ground, over water, and in the air. Astronauts even leave our planet and travel through space. Individual inventors have shown courage andenterpriseby following their dreams and trying to make things work. Unfortunately they did not always succeed. Those who try new things sometimes fail, especially when the new idea is a moving vehicle. However, others are often able to build on these failures and succeed.

From Cugnot to Sinclair The earliest failure in this book was the steam cart invented by NicolasJoseph Cugnot in 1769. This invention has been called the world’s first automobile, and though it was not successful, its failings showed others the way forward. Steam cars had a period of great success, before the water boiler was overtaken by the petrol engine. Today, engineers are looking at ways to replace petrol, and there are sure to be more mistakes along the way. The Sinclair C5 was such a mistake.

A white elephant? Many of the failures listed in this book, such as Concorde and the Hercules ﬂying boat, have been called “white elephants”. This term means a useless possession that is expensive to maintain and impossible to sell. The phrase apparently comes from the story that the king of Siam gave a rare white elephant to a courtier who annoyed him. The king did this knowing that the animal would be costly to keep and could not be put to any practical use.

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