The Black Book
The Black BookThe Ultimate Guide to Alternative Inventions
Author(s): Noah Charney
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Hungry Minds, United Kingdom
Imprint: Hungry Minds
ISBN-13: 9798999340344, 979-8999340344
Synopsis
The Black Book: The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Inventions is an illustrated book about inventions that almost changed the world - but didn't.
It brings together unusual machines, ambitious prototypes, and strange engineering ideas that were once taken seriously: flying tanks, floating tunnels, collapsible aircraft carriers, armored vehicles, and other concepts that now feel almost fictional, even though they were real.
The book looks at why these ideas appeared, what their inventors were trying to solve, how the inventions worked, and why they never became part of everyday life. Some were too expensive, some too complicated, some arrived too early, and some were simply too strange for their time.
Rather than treating them as failures, the book presents them a.
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The Black Book
The Black BookThe Ultimate Guide to Alternative Inventions
Author(s): Noah Charney
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Hungry Minds, United Kingdom
Imprint: Hungry Minds
ISBN-13: 9798999340344, 979-8999340344
Synopsis
The Black Book: The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Inventions is an illustrated book about inventions that almost changed the world - but didn't.
It brings together unusual machines, ambitious prototypes, and strange engineering ideas that were once taken seriously: flying tanks, floating tunnels, collapsible aircraft carriers, armored vehicles, and other concepts that now feel almost fictional, even though they were real.
The book looks at why these ideas appeared, what their inventors were trying to solve, how the inventions worked, and why they never became part of everyday life. Some were too expensive, some too complicated, some arrived too early, and some were simply too strange for their time.
Rather than treating them as failures, the book presents them a.
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The Black BookThe Ultimate Guide to Alternative Inventions
Author(s): Noah Charney
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Hungry Minds, United Kingdom
Imprint: Hungry Minds
ISBN-13: 9798999340344, 979-8999340344
Synopsis
The Black Book: The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Inventions is an illustrated book about inventions that almost changed the world - but didn't.
It brings together unusual machines, ambitious prototypes, and strange engineering ideas that were once taken seriously: flying tanks, floating tunnels, collapsible aircraft carriers, armored vehicles, and other concepts that now feel almost fictional, even though they were real.
The book looks at why these ideas appeared, what their inventors were trying to solve, how the inventions worked, and why they never became part of everyday life. Some were too expensive, some too complicated, some arrived too early, and some were simply too strange for their time.
Rather than treating them as failures, the book presents them a.
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format | hardback |
Language | eng |
Color | black |
Brand | Hungry Minds |
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