Name: When Everything Went Wrong: 10 Real Stories of Inventors Who Didn't Give Up!
Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing
SKU: 9781524880422
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When Everything Went Wrong: 10 Real Stories of Inventors Who Didn&

Author: Max Temporelli, Barbara Gozzi, Agnese Innocente | Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

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, “I 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

Kids will love all the fun facts and true stories in this book, told in both prose and comic form!

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This book was impossible to put down. Equally discomforting and fascinating, the stories within are never fully told, leaving your imagination to fill in the gaps. This book is everything that our ever-increasing AI world is not. Painfully and beautifully human, with no punches pulled.

Great leaps into a man's world.

This book was interesting to see how in the animal kingdom, there is a lot of sexual diversity, and the males and females of each species are cared for equally in the group. I was disappointed that Erna found it necessary to bring in a quote from the bible, Corinthians, to show that women were kept down and in their box in that era. What that verse meant was that women weren't allowed to discuss or argue biblical meanings in the church with the men. That was to be done at home. I think that would have been because the men were educated in the church ways whereas the women weren't. It still shows that the women were not given the same rights as men but what it doesn't show is that women weren't allowed to sing and young men were castrated so they could sing with a boy soprano voice.
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Cultural practices have discriminated against women through the ages and continue to do so but it there has been great headway and continues to be. I thank Erma for being one of the women who fought for the right to be treated respectfully in that all male domain.

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When Everything Went Wrong: 10 Real Stories of Inventors Who Didn't Give Up!

When Everything Went Wrong: 10 Real Stories of Inventors Who Didn't Give Up!

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