15 Accidental Inventions You Can't Imagine Your Life Without

Sometimes things don't go as planned, but once in a while it's for the better. From the microwave. Two ice cream cones. The

accidental

inventions

on this list completely changed our way of

life

. Are you ready to receive a pleasant surprise? So, give it the thumbs up and let's go. jump straight to matches in the early 19th century, British pharmacist John Walker routinely prepared medicines using wooden sticks to mix the chemicals, one day he noticed that one of the sticks had some substance stuck to it when he tried to scrape it off, the stick fell apart. caught fire and that's how he came up with this brilliant idea to make

life

easier in the world without electricity.

He began to make and sell these cardboard matches that he later replaced with 3-inch wooden sticks accompanied by a piece of sandpaper to lighting them Walker humbly decided not to patent his invention because he believed it would be easier for him to benefit humanity in this way matches soon became popular around the world and remain a useful product today Teflon American scientist Roy J. Plunkett was doing research for the DuPont company with the goal of finding a way to make its refrigerators safer by replacing the dangerous refrigerant Freon with something else, he must have thought it was another failed experiment when he discovered that the gas mixture he had created simply disappeared. overnight and everything that was left in the container with a white waxy substance that strange substance proved to have some useful qualities it was non-reactive non-stick and resistant to extreme temperatures from minus 100 degrees to 500 degrees Fahrenheit in 1941 DuPont patented the invention we all know today I eat Teflon French Fries New York Chef George Crum great name for a chef, eh actually, it would be better for a baker anyway, Chef Crum received many complaints from customers that his French fries were not hot enough crispy.

Crum, a little annoyed, decided to cut the potatoes as thin as he could fry. He put them in boiling oil and spread them and saw what should appear, he probably thought, but to his surprise, people went crazy over the new recipe. Potato chips have changed a lot since 1853, today they come in more than 200 different flavors, from the classic sour cream and onion. even some pretty strange ones like wasabi and ginger, oh that sounds good. Ice Cream Cones Ice cream itself is nothing new. The Chinese were eating something very similar as early as 200 BC. Ice cream cones, however, were the product of a happy accident at the 1904 World's Fair.

Louis, the ice cream stand, had been so rushed with customers that he ran out of bowls. Things were not so busy at the stall next door, where Ernest Hamrlik was selling Persian waffles, in a kind gesture, we began rolling his waffles into cones and offered them to him. He gave them to his neighbor to use instead of bowls, customers fell in love with the final product and the Coca-Cola ice cream cone was born. John Pemberton wasn't a businessman, he was just a pharmacist trying to find a way to get rid of headaches, so he came up with a simple recipe that consisted of two ingredients: coca leaves and kola nuts combined in a syrup.

It came on the market in 1886. The syrup was supposed to be mixed with water, but one time the seller mixed it with soda by accident. This is how the delicious and refreshing drink that we all love today was created post-it notes dr. Spencer Silver was working as a chemist for the 3M company back in 1968. He was trying to create a super strong adhesive, but what he got was the opposite: a low-tack but high-quality adhesive, strong enough to hold a piece of paper. but durable. Enough to be relocated several times without losing its stick, it was not until 1974 when the use of the invention was discovered. his colleague needed something to mark his hymnal in the church choir and the simple sticky papers worked wonders, the name of the post-it notes was Later they were dug up and became essential and in the home, schools and offices of everyone.

Safety glass. The French chemist Edouard Benedictus once

accidental

ly knocked a glass off his desk to his surprise, it didn't break into pieces, but just cracked all over, he couldn't understand it. He didn't discover why until he realized that the beaker had a thin film of liquid plastic left over from a previous experiment and that's how shatterproof glass was invented. No, vulcanized rubber was not invented by Mr. Spock, a young scientist named Charles Goodyear, was trying to improve the quality of rubber that was not as durable in the 19th century. Goodyear was experimenting and mixing raw resin with salt, pepper, sugar, sand, castor oil and even soup in an attempt to find the perfect combination.

It seems like he was really trying to invent lunch anyway, one day he decided to see what would happen if he mixed the rubber with magnesia lime and nitric acid again, but once the rubber was mixed with sulfur and accidentally dropped on a surface hot, it worked. Scientists invented vulcanized rubber that is now used to produce almost everything, from basketballs to car tires. Plastic, before we had plastic, there was shellac, it was used in the early 20th century for all kinds of purposes, from varnishing wood to making records and even dentures. The problem was its price, it was very expensive to import beetles from Southeast Asia for production, so chemists Leo Hendrik Baekeland tried to find a cheaper alternative to shellac during their experimentation, they came up with something even more useful, the new mixture was a moldable material.

Able to resist extremely high temperatures, we all know them as plastic antidepressants. The first antidepressant was discovered in 1957 and was supposed to be a cure for tuberculosis. Its creators noticed that, while it did not do much to cure the disease, it did help improve the patient's mood. I still use this medication to treat symptoms of depression today implantable pacemaker Wilson Greatbatch was trying to create a device that would simply record the beating of the human heart. He mistakenly added the wrong electronic component, causing the product to recreate the heart rhythm at which this pacemaker was successfully implanted. the first human being in 1960 and has been saving lives ever since antibiotics Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming's laboratory was always a mess beakers and papers all over the floor a desk full of Petri dishes with different types of bacteria one day scientists They found mold in one of the petri dishes containing staphylococcus bacteria.

The mold had formed a sterile shield around it, killing the bacteria in the dish. Fleming, intrigued, decided to further study the properties of this fungus and received the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the penicillin in 1945 parts of the body leaving a shadow on the The denser the object was, the more massive the shadow was and now we have superglue for X-ray images In 1942, Kodak researcher Harry Coover was working on a transparent plastic for gun sights when he accidentally created an extremely adhesive substance that would stick to almost anything while he worked. In another research project some time later, the adhesive again proved to be too sticky, as it was a unique and useful discovery in 1958.

Kodak patented this super glue that we all have a love-hate relationship with today. Microwave oven the next time you're heating up a meal. or some popcorn in a matter of seconds, don't forget to thank Percy Spencer, in his time, microwaves, not kitchen appliances, but the waves themselves, were used in radar, but one day Spencer, a radar specialist Navy man who worked for Raytheon, was standing near a magnetron-emitting microwave and noticed that the chocolate bar in his pocket had turned into a sticky mess and that's how the microwave oven was invented in 1945, so? Which story do you think is the best?

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