Robert Smith Literary agency » Constable https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 They Laughed at Galileo: How The Great Inventors Proved Their Critics Wrong https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/albert-jack/laughed-galileo-great-inventors-proved-critics-wrong/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/albert-jack/laughed-galileo-great-inventors-proved-critics-wrong/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:44:07 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=1664 From the wireless to the computer, and from hula hoops to interplanetary travel, inventions and discoveries have changed our lifestyles in ways that would have astounded our ancestors. Each of them was originally developed by visionaries who dreamt of the seemingly impossible, but who were opposed by an array of experts publicly declaring that ‘It […]

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]]> Jack They Laughed at GalileoFrom the wireless to the computer, and from hula hoops to interplanetary travel, inventions and discoveries have changed our lifestyles in ways that would have astounded our ancestors. Each of them was originally developed by visionaries who dreamt of the seemingly impossible, but who were opposed by an array of experts publicly declaring that ‘It cannot be done.’

Well, yes it could, and here’s the story of how those dreamers overcame the odds against them.

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