When Everything Went Wrong

Max Temporelli, Barbara Gozzi

When Everything Went Wrong
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Country
United States
Published
19 July 2023
Pages
80
ISBN
9781524880422

When Everything Went Wrong

Max Temporelli, Barbara Gozzi

Did you know? Some of the world's greatest inventions started off as failures! Inventions like Coca-Cola, shoes, and vacuum cleaners were actually mistakes. Told in a mixture of comic panels and prose, this gorgeous book shares the stories of 10 of these fabulous inventions. Thomas Edison famously said, "I have not failed once at making a light bulb, I have simply found ninety-nine ways of not making ones." In When Everything Went Wrong, readers will read about 10 inventors who persevered. Making mistakes doesn't mean you failed . . . it's all part of the process!

Inventors included in this book are:

Thomas Edison Jan Matzeliger Guglielmo Marconi Wilson Greatbach James Dyson Margarete Steiff Stephanie Louis Kwolek Charles Goodyear Percy Spencer John Stith Pemberton

Kids will love all the fun facts and true stories in this book, told in both prose and comic form!

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