Brilliant Failures category "technology"

Post-it van 3M

The intention was to create a very strong kind of glue to develop various applications within the company 3M ...

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Scout Rocket Program NASA

The intention was to build a properly functioning rocket as quickly as possible which could compete with The Soviet Union’s Sputnik.

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Sinclair ZX80, the first affordable home computer

Inventor Clive Sinclair set himself the goal of developing and bringing to market the first really affordable home computer: it was to be ...

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Nobel prize by playing with pencil and scotch tape

In Manchester in 2004, Geim and Novoselov often organized their so called Friday night experiments – a time where they would try out often bizarre ...

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