This episode explores the idiom "flash in the pan." We are talking about Segway's, muskets, and failure! Guests:Don N. Hagist, author – Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution, Editor of The Journal of The American RevolutionDr Samuel West, founder and curator – Museum of FailureSources:EF Tours Blog – Dean Kamen: Inventions and Opportunities in Failurehttps://blog.eftours.com/article/dean-kamen-inventions-and-opportunities-in-failure/CNN – How the Segway Became a Joke and a Blueprint for the Futurehttps://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/tech/segway-historyEmerging Tech Brew – How the Segway Paved the Way for Micromobility Startupshttps://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2025/03/21/segway-micromobility-startupsTIME Archive – Reinventing the Wheelhttps://time.com/archive/6905012/reinventing-the-wheel-3/Journal of the American Revolution – About AllThingsLiberty.comhttps://allthingsliberty.com/about/Early English Books Online (EEBO) – Flash in historical texts (A59339)https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?q1=Flash&type=simple&rgn=full+text&c=eebo&cc=eebo&idno=A59339.0001.001WIRED (2015) – Why the Segway Was a Technological Marvel That Didn't Workhttps://www.wired.com/2015/01/well-didnt-work-segway-technological-marvel-bad-doesnt-make-sense/WIRED (2006) – Glitch Leads to Segway Recallhttps://www.wired.com/2006/09/glitch-leads-to-segway-recall/Television Editorial Corporation. Television Age, (November 7, 1966). Television‑Radio Age / Television Age issue dated November 7, 1966. PDF accessed via World Radio History archive. https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-TV-Radio-Age/60s/66/Television-Radio-Age-1966-11-07.pdfAmerican Institute of Food Distribution. Weekly Digest. Vols. 72–73, 1966. https://books.google.co.uk/books?Archive.org – The Flintlock: Its Origin, Development, and Useby Torsten Lenk, translated by J.F. Haywardhttps://archive.org/details/Flintlock_The/page/n127/mode/2up?q=MarinTopics:flash in the pan, Segway, Museum of Failure, innovation, failure, idioms, history, personal growth, technology, expectations, muskets, flintlock

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