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    Invention
    Invention
    Invention
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    Invention

    By Albert Jack

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    From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries, They Laughed at Galileo and many more..... 

    Hoisted by their own Petard. Ten Inventors who were killed by their creations.

    This volume is dedicated to all those whose died whilst pursuing the idea that they could make the world a better place for the rest of us. 

    Curiosity will eventually lead to innovation. Fortunately we are an imaginative species who does a lot of wondering. Way back to when man first learned to walk upright and began communicating with each other, by pointing and shouting, we can find the earliest examples. Somebody once thought, ‘I know, we can move that heavy rock, or dead buffalo, by rolling it along on tree trunks because it is easier than dragging it over the ground.’ 

    This, of course, led to the wheel. It must have been around that time that some other clever soul worked out that if he held some meat over that hot fiery thing then it tasted better. It seems basic but it was innovation. Somebody somewhere decided to take the risk of burning their food down into ashes, as they knew the burning logs did, just to see if it tasted any better. But I bet there was someone else laughing at him and saying ‘don’t do that, it’s a terrible idea,’ (or whatever is was they would have said back then.) And that’s innovation too. That’s discovery and invention.

    We have been doing it ever since in one form or another and we have come a long way as a species thanks to people who take risks and ignore the advice of wiser ones. And that, in a nutshell, is what this book is all about. You see, that for all of our innovations and invention over the last six thousand years it is incredible to understand that the one thing that has not developed at all is the human brain.

    Believe it or not the pre-historic human brain was perfectly capable of understanding how to use Windows 8.1 and could easily have landed a rocket on the moon if only the information it was given was better evolved at the time. The brain itself was already fine and all it needed was programming. That, of course, is what has happened to it over the many years since.

    However, along the way many have paid the ultimate sacrificial and their quest for discovery has cost them their lives. This, then, is the story of ten of the most famous inventors who died at the hands of their creation.

    1. Mary Curie and the cure for cancer
    2. Advanced modern warships
    4. The world’s first attempt at space travel
    5. Blood Transfusion
    6. Flying taxis
    7. Underwater travel
    8. The Lighthouse
    9. The Hospital Bed
    10. The Newspaper Press

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Jack Publishing
    Release dateMar 6, 2018
    ISBN9781540179470
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      Invention | Awesome Inventors: Ten Famous Innovators Killed by their Creations | (2018 eBook Edition)

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      About the Author

      Albert Jack is a writer and historian. His first book, Red Herrings and White Elephants explored the origins of well-known idioms and phrases and became an international bestseller in 2004.

      It was serialised by the Sunday Times and remained in their bestseller list for sixteen straight months. He followed this up with a series of bestsellers including Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep, Pop Goes the Weasel and What Caesar did for My Salad.

      Fascinated by discovering the truth behind the world’s great stories, Albert has become an expert in explaining the unexplained, enriching millions of dinner table conversations and ending bar-room disputes the world over.

      He is now a veteran of hundreds of live television shows and thousands of radio programmes worldwide. Albert lives somewhere between Guildford in England and Cape Town in South Africa.

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      Including;

      1. Mary Curie and the cure for cancer

      2. Advanced modern warships

      4. The world’s first attempt at space travel

      5. Blood Transfusion

      6. Flying taxis

      7. Underwater travel

      8. The Lighthouse

      9. The Hospital Bed

      10. The Newspaper Press

      ‘If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying, ‘It can’t be done.’ – Peter Ustinov

      Introduction to They Laughed at Galileo

      Curiosity

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