It's a good example but I think the core of the article is that there is inherent success bias in the history of science and engineering. The scientists of the

It's a good example but I think the core of the article is that there is inherent success bias in the history of science and engineering. The scientists of the past that were working on dead end problems were not necessarily worse scientists, it could have been pure bad luck. But in hindsight it's difficult to tell those people from the incompetent.