EUREKAAARGH: A Spectacular Collection of Inventions That Nearly Worked

Hart-Davis, Adam

ISBN 10: 1854794841 / ISBN 13: 9781854794840

Published by Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, London, 1999

About this Item

This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in burgundy cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. From the author of "Thunder, Flush and Thomas Crapper," a fabulous collection of infrequently brilliant, regularly unlucky, often wildly unsound inventions. Ref DDD 4.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EUREKAAARGH: A Spectacular Collection of Inventions That Nearly Worked
• Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854794841
• ISBN 13: 9781854794840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

From the author of "Thunder, Flush and Thomas Crapper," a fabulous collection of infrequently brilliant, regularly unlucky, often wildly unsound inventions.

From the Publisher

Since the beginning of time, humans have distinguished themselves by their need to invent things. "Eurekaaargh!" delves into the minds and workings of some of the most creative and crackpot inventors in history, revealing why it was they got so far--but no further--with their inventions. Cyclists will undoubtedly be intrigued by one patentee's velocipede seat with an inflated cushion to protect the "organic parts," but may draw the line at mounting Paul Herrmann's cycle made entirely of cane lashed together with string--even the wheels. And sailors would do well to avoid Sir Henry Bessemer's anti-seasickness boat, which proved so unmanageable on her maiden voyage that she demolished the pier at Calais. Handsomely illustrated with original drawings, and with over 100 stories of weird and wondrous bicycles, boats, flying machines, medical marvels, and domestic appliances, "Eurekaaargh!" is a tribute to the tireless inventiveness of man and to the triumph of hope over experience.