Name: The Fickle Finger (en Inglés)
Price: 21.89 EUR
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Author: Martin Fone
ISBN: 9781838593117

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Troubador Publishing Ltd

Autor

Martin Fone

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781838593117

Categorías

Historia de la ciencia

The Fickle Finger (en Inglés)

Martin Fone (Autor) · Troubador Publishing Ltd · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Fickle Finger (en Inglés)"

uccess is a slippery, fickle thing. How much is down to luck, being in the right place at the right time or knowing the right people, and how much to innate talent? Why are some people less successful than others? Taking as its frame of reference the stories of fifty inventors who lost out on the fame that their genius might otherwise have merited, The Fickle Finger examines some of the reasons why they have languished in obscurity for so long. It is a tale of prejudice, racial and sexual, societal pressures, deficiencies in the patent system, gross errors of judgment, and sheer bad luck. The pressures of battling the system sometimes led to madness, penury and even suicide. And along the way, there will be some surprises. Were the Wright Brothers really the first men to fly in a powered machine? Did Galileo really invent the telescope? Has a US President held a patent? How did Albert Einstein hope to improve upon the fridge? Why was Benjamin T Franklin denied a patent? Who gave away their invention for a lifetime's supply of chocolate? The answers to these questions and much more are to be found within this book. A lively, entertaining and light-hearted investigation into the components of success, it will give you plenty of food for thought.