Five Unusual Inventions That Failed: Why Being "Brilliant" Isn't Everything

The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is home to the world's largest collection of working historic computers.Follow the development of computing: from the Turing-Welchman Bombe and Colossus of the 1940s through the large systems and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, to the rise of personal computing and the rise of mobile computing and the internet.Recognised as one of England’s top 100 ‘irreplaceable places’, we welcome corporate and group visits, schools and individuals from all over the world.We are normally open Tuesday to Friday 10:30 -17:00, Saturday & Sunday 10:30 – 17:00. Please check tickets for actual opening days and times.TNMOC operates independently of Bletchley Park Trust, although we are located on the Bletchley Park Estate.To visit us, go through the main Bletchley Park entrance, through the barrier, walk or drive bearing left beyond the main car parks, to our separate entrance located at the top of the Park.Visit their website here for more information.https://www.tnmoc.org/Sat Nav users: please use the postcode for the railway station MK3 6DS on Sherwood Drive and then follow signs. The postcode for Bletchley Park will actually take you to an old entrance which is closed.

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Lessons, and laughs, from engineering's historic fails - for entrepreneurs, technologists and the rest of us.

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Disruptive thinking is the Holy Grail technology and engineering but not all brilliantly conceived ideas are hits: they become white elephants.Author John J. Geoghegan&#x27;s new book <a href="https://www.whiteelephanttechnology.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">White Elephant Technology: 50 Crazy Inventions That Should Never Have Been Built And What We Can Learn From</a> showcases some of the biggest inventions in STEM that nobody asked for or wanted: systems that were built, tested and worked (more or less - and except on the rare occasions they killed their creators) but ultimately flopped. His study teaches an important lesson: that there’s as much to be learned from failure as success.Join John for a 45-minute, online presentation and audience Q&amp;A. This discussion – lavishly illustrated with photographs and film clips - will focus on five white elephants whose example are both entertaining and educational!John has a career of more than 20 years spent investigating what he calls WETech - White Elephant Technology. His work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times Science section, Popular Science and Smithsonian&#x27;s Air &amp; Space magazine. White Elephant Technology: 50 Crazy Inventions That should Never Have Been Built And What We Can Learn From Them - released by The History Press in August 2023 - is his third book on this topic.

John Geoghegan with an invention known through history to have worked.

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