| | Inviting Disaster (2003)At the edge of technology, innovation and inexperience sometimes combine to create a tragic concoction. In his acclaimed book Inviting Disaster, James R. Chiles explored two centuries of influential accidents, looking for lessons in the wreckage and examining the events that led to calamity. MODERN MARVELS® expands on Chiles' work in this captivating, four-volume set that chronicles man's ever-evolving struggle to tame the machines we create. Here are familiar stories from the headlines, examined in a whole new light: Chernobyl; the crash of the Concorde; the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk. Here too are less familiar but equally cautionary tales like the destruction of the giant drilling rig Ocean Ranger, the PEPCON factory explosion in Nevada, and the countless near misses where quick thinking, courage and daring gambits avert tragedy.
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