Brilliantly Bad Mark Tanner

Name: Brilliantly Bad By Mark Tanner
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Summary

A miscellany of actual patents for wonderfully bizarre inventions, Brilliantly Bad is a salute to what the human mind can achieve - even if it probably shouldn't.

Brilliantly Bad Summary

Brilliantly Bad: Inventions So Terrible They're Good by Mark Tanner

A miscellany of actual patents for wonderfully bizarre inventions, Brilliantly Bad is a salute to what the human mind can achieve - even if it probably shouldn't.

This collection of the strangest ideas ever patented, ranging from the bizarre and baffling to the *oh so close* to genius, is a true celebration of human ingenuity in all its (occasionally) pointless glory.

INVENTIONS INCLUDE:

A coat that doubles as a urinal
A musical condom
An automated pet petter
Face-lifting earrings
A weight-lifting device for the penis

About Mark Tanner

Mark Tanner grew up in Liverpool, where his father was constantly making things. Some of the things he made, such as a coffee pot stand fashioned from an old coat-hanger, Mark still has. Others, such as the bird feeding table designed to sit on top of their rotary washing line, he doesn't. Brought up in such an environment, he developed an appreciation and affection for a particular type of inventor's mindset from a young age. After a brief spell in academia, Mark worked in TV, making documentaries such as High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos and Dangerous Knowledge - The Search for Infinity for the BBC. In his spare time he writes and edits, including his new book Brilliantly Bad, as well as Great British Inventions, The Debt Generation and War Letters 1914-1918. Mark currently lives quietly in Lancaster with his partner and daughter.

Additional information

Sku

GOR012674748

ISBN 13

9780008558659

ISBN 10

0008558655

Title

Brilliantly Bad: Inventions So Terrible They're Good by Mark Tanner

Author

Mark Tanner

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Year published

20220929

Number of pages

208

Prizes

N/A

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Note

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