"There are three ways of losing money - gambling, on women, and on backing inventors. By far the least pleasant is backing inventors". - Old City saying.
Christopher Brasher sizes up the gamble we have got to take in backing inventors, and meets the men whose brain-children demand our stake money.
Including:
Dr. Barnes Wallis - the swing-wing
Christopher Cockerell - the hovercraft
Professor F.C. Williams - the electronic memory
Geoffrey Stockdale - the take-apart ship
Professor Eric Laithwaite - the linear motor
Donald Firth - revolution in cars and machine tools
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