Four failed inventions that changed the world | BBC Ideas

The mouse, the pacemaker, VR, the synthetic fibre Kevlar... all four started off as failed inventions. So there's hope for us all!
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[anushkas]

Can you upload more videos like this?? This one was really interesting!

[wbell]

Well, there's hope for some of us.

[perisplayground]

How are these BBC's video's only had 700++ likes?!

[JacobPatrick]

Wow. These are sad. (except for the pacemaker story)

[maximillian]

This feels like an internet historian video

[merycrizpederano]

What is the differnce between an unsuccesful and an invention? still searching about that? anyone can answer me?

[evertonshorts]

If you think Doug Engelbart just invented the mouse, you really didn't understand The Mother Of All Demos.

[bend]

Or, four successful inventions that were only considered so after they were made profitable.

[robertclark]

A chocolate teapot isn't totally useless because you can eat it .

[tsaszymborska]

The Earth in the intro is rotating in the wrong direction.

[isabelfuentesnar]

When they say "Jobs" they should say Wozniak