By: Chuckles
People who self-identify as money-making entrepreneurs commonly hit it big, sometimes after years of effort and all, and then try for the rest of their careers to repeat the experience, to no avail....
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Brazil is full of little living time capsules like this. In the six years I lived there. I visited many of such places like Ford's experiment. In fact, I discovered that one can time travel there and...
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Actually, he tried a third time, but it burned down, fell over, and sank in the swamp. Then it flopped.
View ArticleBy: ZachsMind
I remember the museum was really cool when I was a kid. Greenfield Village had an outdoor penny arcade that for a six year old was like being inside a raindrop in heaven.
View ArticleBy: scheptech
history has repeatedly shown that obscene wealth gives one the privilege– perhaps even the obligation– to make bizarre and astonishing mistakes on a grand scaleI also liked how Edison wasted most of...
View ArticleBy: GuyZero
I also liked how Edison wasted most of his fortune building cement plants on the belief that we'd start to make all out houses out of 100% cement. Apparently there are still a few cement Edison houses...
View ArticleBy: delmoi
$200 million isn't really that much to lose for a big corporation like that on some crazy scheme.
View ArticleHenry's Fordlandia Flop
In the 1930's, Henry Ford transplanted a tiny piece of America—complete with picket fences, fire hydrants, poetry readings, square-dancing, and English-language sing-alongs—into the Amazon rain forest....
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