The wrong boots / selected by Ranulph Fiennes
Soluble circuit / selected by Ellen MacArthur
The Mars climate orbiter / selected by Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Samuel Beckett - original manuscript drafts of Worstward ho / selected by Michael John Gorman
Mauve / selected by Ken Robinson
The NeoNurture / selected by Timothy Prestero
Olympian / selected by Sonia O'Sullivan
The ice pick lobotomy / selected by Shane O'Mara
The third policeman / selected by Anne Enright
2,000 Dysons later / selected by James Dyson
Fixperts / selected by Jane ní Dhulchaointigh
The humble fuse / selected by Tim Harford
Radioactive moonshine / selected by Holly Morris
The K1 syringe / selected by Marc Koska
When the wheels come off / selected by Ross Brawn
Forceps / selected by Robert Winston
The first raspberry pi / selected by Eben Upton
Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force / selected by Marc Abrahams
The walkie talkie building / selected by Oliver Wainwright
Superman's wheelchair / selected by Mark Pollock.
Fail better : a collection of inspirational failures. ISBN 9780992611026. Published by Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.