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!
Temporelli, Max
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Condition: New, UPC: 9781524880422, Publication Date: Mon, May 1, 2023, Type: Hardcover ,
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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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