25 Accidental Inventions That Changed The World

25th saccharin, you know, that pink packet of fake sugar that's always on the restaurant table, no matter how sweet it is, you might get suppressed and know where it came from in 1879. Chemist Constantin Fahlberg, who was trying to find a alternative use for coal tar, returned home. after a long day at work only to notice that his wife's cookies tasted much sweeter after asking her about it, he realized he hadn't washed his hands after work and voila, smart dust number 24, though Most students would be a little upset if their homework suddenly blew up in their faces.

Jamie Link, a graduate student at the University of California, made the most of the situation and ended up changing the

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after the silicon chip in the one he was working on was

accidental

ly destroyed and he realized that the individual pieces could still work. how today's censors used to detect everything from deadly tumors to biological agents French fries number 23 in 1853 George Crumb, a New York chef,

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ly invented French fries when an angry customer kept sending his French fries to the kitchen because they were soaked an attempt to teach the client a lesson. Crum sliced ​​them very thin, fried them until crispy and drowned them in salt to surprise, however, the complaining customer really liked them and fries were born.

Chef number 22, although today this list is almost common knowledge. He wouldn't be complete without Civil War veteran turned pharmacist John Pemberton and what he originally intended was nothing more than a medicine. This is also why the original Coca Cola actually included cocaine in its ingredient list number 21. Popsicles were in 1905 and the soft drink had just become the most popular drink on the market. Eleven-year-old Frank Epperson decided to try Save some money by making your own at home using a combination of powder and water. He got quite close, but then absentmindedly put down the concoction. Throughout the night, the temperatures on the porch ended up dropping drastically and when he came out in the morning he found his mixture frozen with the stirring sticks still in it.

Number 20 ice cream cones, although ice cream had been served on plates for years, it was not until the 1904 World's Fair that the ice cream cone was born. An ice cream stand at the fair was doing so well that they were even running out of plates, while the neighboring Persian waffle stand was barely selling anything. The two stall owners got together and came up with the idea of ​​rolling up the waffles, dropping the ice cream on top and voila, ice cream cone number 19 was born. Teflon. If you've ever cooked an omelet, you can thank Roy Plunkett, a chemist who worked for DuPont in the early 20th century, for accidentally stumbling upon the non-reactive nonstick chemical while experimenting with coolants, DuPont quickly patented it and today we notice vulcanized rubber of Teflon number 18.

Charles Goodyear has spent years trying to find a way to make rubber resistant to heat and cold, after several failed attempts, he finally stumbled. Using a mixture that worked before turning out the lights, one night he accidentally spilled some rubber sulfur and lead on a stove, resulting in a mixture that fragmented and hardened, but was still usable. Number 17 plastic in the early 1900s was the material of choice when it came to insulation due to the fact that it was made from Southeast Asian beetles, it was not the cheapest to import, for this reason chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland thought it could win some money producing an alternative to the one you came up with.

However, it was a moldable material that could be heated to extremely high temperatures without distorting, also known as plastic radioactivity number 16. The year was 1896 and physicist Henri Becquerel was trying to obtain fluorescent materials to produce X-rays by letting them out into the Sun. However, , his experiment suffered a week of cloudy skies after leaving all his materials in a drawer. He returned a week later only to discover that the Uranium Rock he left there had strangely managed to print his image on a nearby photographic plate without any exposure to the mauve number 15 light. It was enough that while eighteen-year-old chemist William Perkins was busy researching a cure for malaria, he accidentally ended up changing the

world

of fashion forever.

The beer was 1856 and one of his experiments ended up going horribly wrong creating what appeared to be nothing more than a cloudy mess as he examined it, however, William noticed the beautiful color radiating from the Petri dish, thus the first synthetic beer dye was born. world, pacemaker number fourteen. Wilson Greatbatch was working on a gadget that would record human heartbeats when we accidentally inserted the wrong resistor. perfectly imitating the rhythm of the heart and thus gave rise to the first implantable pacemaker number 13. Notes published in 1968 Spencer Silver, a chemist working for 3 m, stumbled upon a low-adhesion adhesive that Biddy discovered was strong enough to hold the paper to a surface, but weak enough that it would not break upon removal.

After many failed attempts to find a marketable application, one of Silver's colleagues, Art Frey, realized that it would be perfect as a non-slip marker and was born. post-it note number 12 in the microwave if you're single and If you're a guy, then you should be grateful to Percy Spencer, a Navy radar specialist who was tinkering with microwave emitters when he felt the chocolate bar he was carrying in the pocket it was beginning to melt. It was 1945 and the world, or rather, the kitchen, was gone. Same thing since number 11, a sneak during World War II, when Navy engineer Richard James was trying to find a way to employ springs aboard Navy ships to prevent sensitive instruments from bouncing around, he accidentally left When one of them fell, funny, the spring immediately righted itself and landed directly on the ground.

Since then, children around the world have enjoyed playing with this useless number 10 toy, perhaps it is no surprise that the sticky, smelly things with The ones that children have been playing for decades were originally intended for cleaning wallpaper in the early 20th century. However, in the 19th century people stopped using coal to heat their homes, which meant that wallpaper remained relatively clean. Fortunately for Clio McVicker, the original inventor, his son discovered another use for modeling clay, superglue number nine, while developing plastic lenses for gun sights. Harry Coover, a researcher at the Kodak Laboratory, stumbled. The Swiss engineer George de Mestral was on a hunting trip with his dog, when he noticed how the burrs were sticking to his fur, he finally managed to replicate the effect in his laboratory, but it wasn't until NASA arrived that the technology really caught on.

It was not the first electromagnetic wave to be discovered by accident, but in 1895, when Wilhelm Roentgen was conducting an experiment using cathode rays, he noticed that a fluorescent cardboard across the room was actually going out even though there was a thick block between the cathode. lightning bolt and the cardboard, the only explanation was that the light rays were actually passing through the solid block of safety glass number six after Edouard Benedictus, a French chemist, accidentally knocked a flask off his desk and it fell to the floor. , but instead of breaking it, it only broke upon getting closer.

During inspection, he realized that the hit recently contained plastic, cellulose nitrate, which had coated its interior and prevented it from disintegrating in impact number five. When Keith Kellogg started helping his brother cook meals for the patients at the sanatorium where he worked, he was done. accidentally stumbled upon the corn flakes recipe after leaving some bread dough sitting for several hours upon finding flaky dough, decided to see what would happen so she baked it anyway and the rest is story number four, dynamite, It is not like many of you. You recently discovered how to blow things up, gunpowder and nitroglycerin have been around for years, the problem, however, especially in the case of nitroglycerin, was its instability, it wasn't until Alfred Nobel accidentally discovered a method of containing the substance without hinder its power that people could really begin to enjoy anesthesia number three, although there is not a single person who can definitively be credited with the discovery of anesthesia.

If you've ever had an operation, you can thank people like Crawford Long, William Morton, and Charles Jackson, all of whom first noticed the anesthetic effects. of various drugs such as nitrous oxide or laughing gas because they were widely used for recreational purposes number two stainless steel the next time you enjoy your dinner with a stainless fork remember to thank the weapons manufacturers of the 20th century for hiring Harry Braley and English metallurgist who developed a rusty gun barrel shortly after testing his creation on various corrosives, one of which was lemon juice, realized it would be perfect for cutlery, the number one penicillin while studying the staphylococcus.

Alexander Fleming added some of the bacteria to the Petri dishes. Before going on vacation, although he expected bacteria to grow upon returning, he was surprised to find mold growing on the dishes. Instead, after close inspection, he found that more of a bad product was released that inhibited staff growth, thus giving rise to the world's first antibiotic.