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abigailbat's review
3.0
An interesting and browseable read about wacky inventions that were patented but did not catch on (or were never made). The intro talks about failed inventions, some inventions that just came at the wrong time and took awhile to catch on, and folks that are credited with inventions that they didn't invent but maybe improved on. The bulk of the text is made up of brief blurbs about various weird inventions that seem arbitrarily chosen and somewhat arbitrarily arranged, but are nonetheless amusing. Books that are a collection of brief accounts like this do not tend to circ well at my library but I think I could sell this to kids who are interested in weird facts.
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