Bill Fawcett - It Looked Good on Paper - Bizarre Inventions.pdf

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It
L ked
Good on Paper
Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters,
and Engineering Follies
EDITED BY
BILL FAWCETT
Contents
Introduction:
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Failure
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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:
The Santa Susana Field
Laboratory
Under Pressure:
The First Space Walk
The Biospherians in the Bubble
Mars or Bust
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Contents
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:
The Brewster F2A
Nazi Kamikaze?:
The
Selbstopfer
A Little Hard to Swallow
Less Bang for More Bucks:
The Expensive Saga of
the F-111
A Bone of Contention:
The B-1 Bomber
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet
When the Chopper Gets Chopped:
The RAH-66
Comanche
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