When Everything Went Wrong
Did you know? Some of the world's greatest inventions started off as failures!
Inventions like Coca-Cola, shoes, and vacuum cleaners were actually mistakes. Told in a mixture of comic panels and prose, this gorgeous book shares the stories of 10 of these fabulous inventions.Thomas Edison famously said, ôI have not failed once at making a light bulb, I have simply found ninety-nine ways of not making ones." In When Everything Went Wrong, readers will read about 10 inventors who persevered. Making mistakes doesn't mean you failed... it's all part of the process!
Inventors included in this book are:
- Thomas Edison
- Jan Matzeliger
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Wilson Greatbach
- James Dyson
- Margarete Steiff
- Stephanie Louis Kwolek
- Charles Goodyear
- Percy Spencer
- John Stith Pemberton
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Title: When Everything Went Wrong
ISBN: 9781524880422
Mastermind number: 229488
Shipping weight (lbs): 1.024993977
Package dimensions (inches): 9.1 x 7.6 x 0.4
Author: Barbara Gozzi, Max Temporelli
Illustrator: Agnese Innocente
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 80
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