EDISON’S CONCRETE PIANO: FLYING TANKS, SIX-NIPPLED SHEEP, WALK-ON-WATER SHOES, AND 12 OTHER FLOPS FROM GREAT INVENTORS
Book ID/图书代码： 00110909B30917
English Summary/英文概要： Edison’s Concrete Piano highlights the careers of famous inventors — revealing the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and especially their big flops and great successes. Take Thomas Edison for example, who revolutionized our world with the light bulb, the phonograph, and the forerunner to the movie camera. He also created a concrete piano, a non-operational helicopter made from box kites and piano wire, and a machine to speak to the dead. Edison was not the only one to engineer a complete flop now and again; in fact, failure amid greatness is the norm — not the exception.
Did you know that Henry Ford followed his Model T success with a tractor that was famous for killing its customers? Ever heard of a flying tank? Can you imagine why physics genius Albert Einstein created a refrigerator that howled like a banshee? Or what Nikola Tesla was thinking when he tested his earthquake machine — in crowded Manhattan? And how did Alexander Graham Bell, after inventing the phone, pass the time on his sheep farm in Nova Scotia?
From whole scale improvements, like the assembly line, to robots made from paint cans, Edison’s Concrete Piano covers it all. Written snapshots of inventors through the ages to the current day are accompanied by photographs and illustrations of their lives and their inventions. Read about Edison, Tesla, DaVinci, Fuller, and Alexander Graham Bell, alongside the inventors you’ve never considered — the people who are dreaming up many of the products you’ll use every day.
From Alexander Graham Bell’s six-nippled sheep to Leonardo da Vinci’s walk-on-water shoes, these ludicrous ideas and faulty designs will leave you with a smile on your face, and a new perspective on the meaning of success.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《爱迪生的混凝土钢琴》为读者讲述了著名发明家们的故事，讲述了一些鲜为人知的名人轶事，包括他们的发明，他们奇怪的爱好，尤其是他们的成败。就以托马斯·爱迪生为例，他发明的灯泡，留声机均改变了人类的进程，他还是摄像机的先驱者。实际上爱迪生还创造了混凝土钢琴，用箱型风筝和钢琴丝制造了一架无人驾驶飞机，还有能与故去亲人对话的灵魂电话。爱迪生在经历了难以计数的失败后才终于成功，而实际上，失败相较于成功并不是意外，而是常态。
发明界还有许多你不知道的冷知识，你知道亨利·福特凭借T型车大获成功后，其公司的牵引车因顾客致死事件而再一次引起轰动吗？你听说过会飞的坦克吗？你能想象爱因斯坦发明的冰箱发出的声音就像女妖吗？还有尼古拉·特斯拉在拥挤的曼哈顿测试人造地震机器时脑袋里到底在想什么？还有亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔发明了电话后，为什么又在新斯科舍的农场里研究起羊来？
《爱迪生的混凝土钢琴》涵盖了所有的奇特发明，通过照片和插图的方式，作者介绍了当代发明家的生平和作品。读完这本书，你会重新认识爱迪生，特斯拉，达芬奇，福勒，贝尔，还有许多不知名的科学家，正是他们的发明组成了你现在每日的生活。
亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔发明的六个奶头的羊，莱奥纳多·达芬奇创造的能在水上走的鞋，这些馊主意会让你大笑不止，也会让你学会从一个新的角度看待成功的意义。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：“Judy Wearing has written a captivating book on success and failure. In her portraits of 16 inventors, she shows us how even the most gifted and prolific among them have sometimes missed the mark. But they are failures, which only emphasize their humanity, do not diminish their many successful achievements. This book is full of lessons for inventors and non--inventors alik”e-Henry Petroski, author all of Success through Failure and Aleksandar S. Vasic, Professor Civil Engineering and Professor of History, Duke University.
About the Author/作者介绍： 朱迪·威尔林是一位屡获殊荣的教育家和作家，拥有牛津大学生物学博士学位。她目前的职业是科学教育咨询师，还致力于儿童活动和书籍的开发。这是她的第一本流行科学书籍。朱迪现居于安大略省，纽伯格。
Judy Wearing is an award-winning educator and author with a PhD in biology from Oxford University. She works as a science education consultant and develops activities and books for children. This is her first popular science book. She lives in Newburgh, Ontario.
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