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From the bestselling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for my Salad, 9/11 Conspiracy, New World Order and many more...
This is a wonderful collection of stories revealing the origins of some of the world's best-known brand names and how, they became a part of our language and the world we live in today.
Landislas Biro
Charles Goodyear
Willis Carrier
The Earl of Sandwich
King C Gillette
Henry Ford
Walt...
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From the bestselling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel and What Caesar did for My Salad.
A humorous account of great inventors and their critics who predicted failure. They Laughed at Galileo takes a humorous and reflective look at one thousand years of the development of humankind: those who dreamt, those who taught, those who opposed, and those who, ultimately, did. At some point in modern history, each and every one...
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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,...
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A humorous account of great inventors and their critics who predicted failure.
They Laughed at Galileo takes a humorous and reflective look at one thousand years of the development of humankind: those who dreamt, those who taught, those who opposed, and those who, ultimately, did.
At some point in modern history, each and every one of our inventions and discoveries was first envisioned and then developed by a single person, or a handful of people,...
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