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Mistakes that worked : the world's familiar inventions and how they came to be / Charlotte Foltz Jones ; illustrated by John O'Brien.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 1991; 2016Publisher: [1991]Description: 78 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385320434 (pbk.)
  • 0385262469
  • 0329134388
  • 9780385320436
  • 1413199275
  • 9780385262460
  • 9780329134389
  • 9781413199277
  • 9780399552021
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 609 JON 22
Contents:
Favorite foods -- Doctor, doctor -- Fun, fun, fun -- All kinds of accidental things -- What they wear.
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-78) and index.

School Library Journal, November 1997.

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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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Favorite foods -- Doctor, doctor -- Fun, fun, fun -- All kinds of accidental things -- What they wear.

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