Mistakes that worked : 40 familiar inventions and how they came to be / Charlotte Foltz Jones

By:

Charlotte Foltz Jones

Contributor(s):

John O'Brien

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Delacorte Press, 2013Description: 6 unnumbered pages, 78 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:

9780385320436

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

609 JON

Summary: Presents the stories behind forty things that were invented or named by accident, including aspirin, X-rays, Frisbees, Silly Putty, and VELCRO.

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Presents the stories behind forty things that were invented or named by accident, including aspirin, X-rays, Frisbees, Silly Putty, and VELCRO.

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