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Sunday May 06, 2018
Unfortunate Inventions and Inventors
Sunday May 06, 2018
Sunday May 06, 2018
Today we learn that being brilliant doesn't necessarily endow one with common sense. Today we talk about how a wallpaper cleaner became a children's toy, how a man's quest to end world hunger created one of the deadliest bioweapons ever created, and discuss the sad life of a genius who passed up multiple fortunes.
Sources:
https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/thalidomide-tragedy-lessons-drug-safety-and-regulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/08/hitchens200608
http://listverse.com/2009/07/19/10-useful-inventions-that-went-bad/
https://dictionary.hantrainerpro.com/chinese-english/translation-ci_porcelain.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_B%C3%B6ttger
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/726/johann-friedrich-bttger-german-1682-1719/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_wrap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bullock_(inventor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jordan_Gatling
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