Lessons can be learned from the world's most fantastic failures. In many cases, those lessons can lead to success later on. Find out how disasters, mishaps, and accidents have helped scientists, inventors, and doctors throughout history. How to get from here to there as fast as possible has been something humans haw tried to solve since the beginning of time. But sometimes the fastest way isn't always the smoothest. Get up to speed on some of history's most interesting transportation fails and what we learned from those mistakes. Book jacket.