Fame & fable

It seems that many of the
inventors still talked about
never saw their work brought
into being — take da Vinci’s 
lens grinder, Babbage’s Diffe-
rence Engine. Others talked,
made things, but never existed. 
Are equally celebrated for the

failures of their fables. Such as
Daedalus’ who has a plinth to 
himself — the wings with wax 
which melted & cast Icarus 
into the sea, the labyrinth on
Crete unraveled by a thread.