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It Looked Good on Paper电子书

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作       者:Fawcett, Bill

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2009-10-01

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A remarkable compendium of wild schemes, mad plans, crazy inventions, and truly glorious disasters Every 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 boardIt 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, including: The lead water pipes of Rome The Tacoma Narrows Bridge built to collapse The Hubble telescope the $2 billion scientific marvel that couldn't see The Spruce Goose Howard Hughes's airborne atrocity: big, expensive, slow, unstable, and made of wood With 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.
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Cover

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Past Imperfect

The Great Stele of Aksum

The Pipes of Rome

The Great Wall of China

The Tower of Pisa

Overwhelming Success

The Sword Pistol

The True Saga of the Pony Express

Thomas Edison’s Insistence on the Use of DC Power

Modern Mistakes

A Bridge Too Thin

Goldie the Goldfish’s Really, Really Big Cousins

Overcooking with Atoms

Contamination in the Hills:

Under Pressure:

The Biospherians in the Bubble

Mars or Bust

Myopia in Space

The Starr Report

When Good Ideas Are Ignored Just Long Enough to Turn Very, Very Bad

Y2K

Auto Absurdities

Starter Problems

Well, It Worked for Trains…

Here They Go Again…the People’s Car

Built Ford Tinderbox Tough

The Quirky Little Amphicar

Plane Thinking

The Spectacular Failure of the Langley Aerodrome

The First U.S. Navy Catapult Launch

Where the Buffalo Drones:

Nazi Kamikaze?:

A Little Hard to Swallow

Less Bang for More Bucks:

A Bone of Contention:

Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

When the Chopper Gets Chopped:

Double Jeopardy

The Plane Was Invisible Until It Was Killed

Exit Stage Left

Smell-O-Vision:

Nick & Nora:

By Jeeves

The Big Flop in the Big Top

The End of RSO

RPG Envy

The XFL

Malpractice Assurance

High-voltage Medicine

Radioactivity Is Good for Your Health

“X-ray the Feet; It Sounds Really Neat!”

Thalidomide

A Mainstream Wonder Drug

That Sinking Feeling

The Courageous Saga of the First Submarines

The Sinking of the Vasa

Don’t Blame it on Steam

The Sinking of the Titanic

The Sinking of HMS Hood

We Shall Never Again Surrender!

No Plan Ever Survives Contact with the Enemy

A Whole New Battlefield

A Battle Strategy That Will Take Your Breath Away

Tanks a Lot

The Line Must Be Drawn Here

The End of the Line

A Sword for the Masses

Too Good for Its Own Good

Sneaking in the Front Door

A Very Low-tech Firebomb Campaign

Nuclear Nonsense

The Holy Grail of Firearms

A Heavyweight Too Heavy to Fight

The Double Agent

Sergeant York Misses the Target

The Expensive Pipe Dream of Missile Defense

About the Editor

Other Books by Bill Fawcett

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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