€ The inventor of the lie detector also created Wonder Woman? € The first car was built nearly a century before Henry Ford was born? Find out how a phony death ray led to the invention of radar, how the modern computer was born in a roadside bar, and why a trolley ride changed not only Albert Einstein's life but the course of human history. Uncover startling stories of origin behind everything from Teflon and Velcro to the bra and the bobby pin. Learn about the scientist who gave 300 monks the shock of their lives. The Greatest Science Stories Never Told is filled with fascinating figures both famous and forgotten, and Eureka! moments that changed our world forever. Like the teenager who invented television in a potato field, the monk who beat the Wright Brothers into the air by 900 years, and the scientist who won a Nobel Prize because he put off cleaning his lab. From the archives of The History Channel ® comes a collection of science and invention stories that truly astonish, bewilder and stupefy. Everybody knows that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb and Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.Īnd that's just the beginning of the surprising discoveries that await on the pages that follow.
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