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Shares the stories of inventions that, despite considerable promise, proved to be too strange or unwieldy to succeed, profiling their inventors while describing what was learned along the way. By the author of White House Kids.
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The fascinating stories of inventions that could have changed the world, should have made a difference, or would have astounded us all, but for one reason or another, didn’t. Some inventions were too wacky, weird, or unwieldy. Other simply didn’t work. And still others may be the next big thing . . . some day. Learn about the inventors, what they thought they would accomplish, and what--if anything--they did accomplish. Zany illustrations of the contraptions in use throughout.
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