The road to becoming a successful inventor is not an easy one. Paved with difficulties, roadblocks and sometimes sheer, back-to-the-drawing-board failure, the challenging journey has meant that plenty of geniuses have been lost to history and never given the credit they deserved for creating some of the most invaluable items of our time. However, over the course of Fifty Clever Bastards these same forgotten inventors and their unbelievable stories are about to be inducted into our illustrious Hall of Fame. Designed to celebrate all those who fell by the wayside, Fifty Clever Bastards comes to understand just what happened to so many of people behind the things we take for granted. Covering their incredible tales, the book details the unlucky inventors that were killed by their own inventions, debased by fraud or those who mysteriously took their ideas to the grave. Including aviators from the first millennium CE, pioneers of medicine and science and individuals who took their zeal to learn just a bit too far, Fifty Clever Bastards promises to shine a light on all of the crazy, wonderful inventors that history forgot. Responsible for some of the biggest breakthroughs the world has ever seen (and for appliances we use every single day), thanks to Martin Fone's new book, Fifty Clever Bastards, some of the greatest geniuses of our time have finally been given their due. | Author: Martin Fone | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | Publication Date: Aug 19, 2016 | Number of Pages: 162 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1537047280 | ISBN-13: 9781537047287
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25" x 20" inches rust, Sumi ink, colored gesso on board Marianne Kolb, from Oakland, CA is a nationally-known, figurative artist. Kolb grew up in Bern, Switzerland, in an isolated farming village. In 1983, Kolb studied figure drawing at the University of California, Berkley, CA. In her exhibition Explorations with Rust Kolb explores her figures with this dynamic, unpredictable medium. "I am fascinated by rust. Rust’s various seductive colors, ranging from black-brown to red-orange to brilliant yellow-tangerine, express a beauty intrinsic to its destiny of complete decay. Rust can certainly stand as a metaphor for aging – for a life intensely lived and exposed, a sign of wisdom and erosion of the ego. Can rust stand for the dignity and beauty of our experience as a species and of life’s fragility and limitations? On another level, can corrosive thought patterns and behaviors weaken the immune system and make our bodies more susceptible to chronic diseases and disorders? Can this sort of rust potentially lead to a body’s ultimate breakdown and demise? These are some of the questions I’ve asked myself while working on the Explorations with Rust series."
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25" x 20" inches rust, Sumi ink, colored gesso on board Marianne Kolb, from Oakland, CA is a nationally-known, figurative artist. Kolb grew up in Bern, Switzerland, in an isolated farming village. In 1983, Kolb studied figure drawing at the University of California, Berkley, CA. In her exhibition Explorations with Rust Kolb explores her figures with this dynamic, unpredictable medium. "I am fascinated by rust. Rust’s various seductive colors, ranging from black-brown to red-orange to brilliant yellow-tangerine, express a beauty intrinsic to its destiny of complete decay. Rust can certainly stand as a metaphor for aging – for a life intensely lived and exposed, a sign of wisdom and erosion of the ego. Can rust stand for the dignity and beauty of our experience as a species and of life’s fragility and limitations? On another level, can corrosive thought patterns and behaviors weaken the immune system and make our bodies more susceptible to chronic diseases and disorders? Can this sort of rust potentially lead to a body’s ultimate breakdown and demise? These are some of the questions I’ve asked myself while working on the Explorations with Rust series."
