It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies by Bill Fawcett

It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies

Bill Fawcett

368 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history reference adventurous informative slow-paced
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A remarkable compendium of wild schemes, mad plans, crazy inventions, and truly glorious disastersEvery phenomenally bad idea seemed like a good idea to someone. How else can you explain the Ford Edsel or the sword pistol—absolutely absurd creatio...

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