Gadget Disasters: Learning from Bad Ideas (Fantastic Fails)
By (Author) Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan
Capstone Press
Capstone Press
1st January 2020
United States
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Inventors, inventions and experiments
600
Paperback
48
See some of the world's greatest gadget disasters from the palm of your hand. Find out how each gadget failed, what went wrong with its design or manufacture, and what programmers learned from their mistakes.
Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan is an author and teacher from Pittsburgh, PA. She loves exploring history and science and has written over a dozen fiction and nonfiction books and graphic novels. Her books include The Science and Technology of Leonardo da Vinci and Animal Allies: 15 Amazing Women in Wildlife Research. Elizabeth lives with her family and pet schnoodle and loves board games, birding, and baking. She's a lifelong runner and avid community scientist.