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03235aam a2200385 i 4500 001 6D502C06875711E9A56C064497128E48 003 SILO 005 20190605010028 008 180921s2019 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018044745 020 $a 0989824993 020 $a 9780989824996 035 $a (OCoLC)1056201582 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a T47 S35 2019 100 1 $a Schiffer, Michael B., $e author. 245 10 $a Spectacular flops : $b game-changing technologies that failed / $c Michael Brian Schiffer, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 264 1 $a Clinton Corners, New York : $b Eliot Werner Publications, Inc., $c [2019] 300 $a xii, 308 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index. 505 0 $a Understanding technological failures -- Secret project : Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot and the first automobile -- Too little, too late : the atmospheric railway -- Putting electromagnetism to work -- Audacious engineer : Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Eastern steamship -- Ferdinand de Lesseps' Panama Canal -- Crackpot invention? Nikola Tesla's world system -- Visionary inventor : R. Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion world -- The nuclear-powered bomber -- Domesticating the bomb : "Geographical engineering" and Project Chariot -- Chrysler's turbojet-powered automobile -- The Concorde : supersonic airliner -- Fusion, hot and cold -- Conclusion : several limited generalizations. 520 $a "Many technologies begin life as someone's vision of an ambitious, perhaps audacious, technology that is expected to have a revolutionary impact on consumers--whether families, companies, or societies. However, if that highly touted technology fails "prematurely" at some point in its life history, it becomes a spectacular flop. Employing a behavioral perspective, this book presents a sample of twelve spectacular flops encompassing the past three centuries, ranging from the world's first automobile to the nuclear-powered bomber. Because technologies may fail from many different causes, spectacular flops pose a special challenge to the author's long-term project of furnishing generalizations about technological change. Instead of constructing generalizations that apply to all spectacular flops, this book provides limited generalizations that pertain to particular groups of technologies bounded by parameters such as "long-term development projects" and "one-off projects." The reader need have no prior familiarity with the technologies because basic principles are introduced as needed"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Inventions $x History $v Popular works. 650 0 $a New products $x History $v Popular works. 650 0 $a System failures (Engineering) $x History $v Popular works. 650 0 $a Errors $x History. 650 0 $a Business failures $x History. 941 $a 4 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231004012241.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20210728010946.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20191002014005.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20190808010110.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6D502C06875711E9A56C064497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search