But for all the inventions that made it into popular use, hundreds of times more failed along the way. It could be a faulty idea, a great idea in the wrong era, a great idea that someone else beats you to, an idea no one will sell, or an idea beat out by a competing concept. Here are ten times the world’s best inventors utterly failed. It’s hard to believe, then, that before the NES, they put their first home console, the Famicom, on the market, and it failed miserably. It actually took Dyson an unbelievable 5,127 failed prototypes before he landed on a design that worked.

Source: The Nation August 03, 2021 06:56 UTC