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Search - Banvard's Folly
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Banvard's Folly Author: History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, but who plummeted into oblivion? Here are the extraordinary, and inspirational, lives of thirteen losers who achieved great heights in their lifetimes only to then meet crushing defeats.
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Genres:
- History
- Nonfiction >> True Accounts
- Professional & Technical >> Engineering >> Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems >> General