ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES {MUST SEE}

1.Superglue :-

Superglue came into being when Harry was trying to isolate a clear plastic to make precision gun sights for handheld weaponry. For a while he was working with chemicals known as cyanoacrylates, which it was discovered polymerized on contact with moisture, causing all the test materials to bond together.Coover was working in a Tennessee chemical plant and realized the potential of the substance when testing showed that the adhesives required neither heat nor pressure to form a strong bond. Thus, after a certain amount of commercial refinement, Superglue was born. the adhesive could be sprayed on open wounds, stemming bleeding and allowing easier transportation of soldiers. A discovery made during an effort to improve guns ended up saving lives




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2.Vaseline :-

Robert went to seek his fortune in the oilfields of Pennsylvania. Soon after his arrival,he noticed the oil workers complaining about something they called ‘rod wax’, a substance that formed on their drilling equipment and gummed it up. It’s feature was its ability to speed up the healing of small cuts and bruises. Chesebrough took a sample of ‘rod wax’ back to his laboratory in Brooklyn.then he embarked on a singularly road show, demonstrating his faith in his product by wounding himself in public before applying it. Soon he was selling a jar a minute. His customers used Vaseline for every conceivable purpose from cleaning nasal congestion to cleaning furniture.Shortly before he died at the impressive age of 96, he revealed that he had been eating a spoonful of the stuff every day for many years.
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3.Stainless Steel :-

Harry Brearley was working to prevent corrosion in rifle barrels when he accidentally invented something interesting..where he was given the job of looking at improving rifle barrels. The problem: when the gun was fired, the heat and gases generated would quickly erode away the inner barrel. Brearley was given the task of finding a steel that would not erode away. Brearley made history on when his mix 0.24% carbon and 12.8% chromium with steel created the first ever stainless steel. And although Brearley didn’t immediately realise what he had created, the resistance of the metal to acids such as vinegar and lemon juice soon pointed him in the right direction. At that time cutlery was made from silver or carbon steel, or plated with nickel. None of which were resistant to rust, so Brearley launched his ‘rustless steel’, later renamed as the more catchy stainless steel.
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4.Blue Jeans :-

Jacob opened a tailor shop on the town ’s main thoroughfare, where he began fabricating wagon covers and tents from a rugged off-white duck cloth sold by Levi Strauss & Co.a woman came to him for a pair of “cheap” pants for her “large” husband who had the habit of going through pants rather quickly. Having found that thread alone did not always adequately hold the pockets onto work pants, Jacob decided to try out rivets, which had proven their worth on horse blankets on the pockets for these pants.He contacted Levi Strauss, his fabric supplier, to help him apply for a patent. The patent application was rejected several times by the patent office but finally granted jointly in the names of Davis and Levi Strauss & Company.the company quickly trademarked it. Unfortunately, because Davis didn’t insist on his name being included in the product name, Levi Strauss’ name alone became a synonym for the pants, leading to the spread of a myth
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5.Penicillin:-

In 1928, British researcher Alexander Fleming unexpectedly discovered penicillin,At the time, Fleming determined that the penicillin was too unstable to work with. However, within 10 years, the Oxford team of Howard Florey and Ernst Chain was able to successfully purify a form of penicillin in sufficient concentration to offer therapeutic value in the treatment of human disease. With the help of the British government, Florey and Chain used a beer-brewing technology to produce the quantities of moldy liquor needed for large-scale penicillin production. When demand outstripped their production capacity, Florey went to the United States to establish mass-production agreements with U.S. pharmaceutical companies.
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6.The Microwave Oven:-


During World War II, two scientists invented the magnetron, a tube that produces microwaves. It was during a radar-related research project around 1946 that Dr. Percy Spencer, a self-taught engineer with the Raytheon Corporation, was testing a new type of magnetron when he discovered that the candy bar in his pocket had melted. This time he placed some popcorn kernels near the tube and the popcorn popped all over his lab. Spencer decided to put the magnetron tube near an egg, which also cooked. The scientist thought if popcorn and a egg can be cooked that quickly, why not other foods? In 1947, Raytheon built the Radarange, the first microwave oven in the world.
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7.Ice Cream Cones:-

Before 1904, ice cream was served on dishes. It wasn ’t until a stall selling ice cream quickly ran out of dishes. The neighboring stall was selling a type of wafer waffle – and since his business was lagging he offered to help out the overly busy ice cream vendor. The spontaneous innovation was to roll his Zalabia into cone shapes and place the ice cream on top, which was an instant hit. This may be legend to a certain, as it was known that edible cones were being served in England prior to the 1904 World ’s Fair.
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8.Champagne:-

Although Dom Perignon did not invent Champagne, he did develop many advances in production of the drink, including holding the cork in place with a wire collar to withstand the fermentation pressure. In France, the first sparkling Champagne was created accidentally; its pressure led it to be called “the devil’s wine” as bottles exploded or the cork jolted away.
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9.Potato chips/crisps:-

Chef George prepared the regular French-fried potatoes for dinner guest who promptly rejected them for being too thick. Chef Crum served that diner with a thinner batch which was also rejected. Annoyed the chef decided to get back at the tough diner by making the potatoes so thin and crisp that even the fork could not skewer them. Instead of riling that diner, the paper-thin and crispy potato slices appealed to that diner so much he requested for more.Soon, all the other diners began to request for the paper-thin and crispy potato chips and they became a regular, house specialty item called Saratoga Chips on the menu. The popularity of the paper-thin potato chips grew quickly and soon it was packaged and sold as a portable convenience food. Eventually, Chef Crum opened his own chips restaurant.
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10.X-Rays:-

Wilhelm Roentgen, Professor of Physics was the first person to discover the possibility of using electromagnetic radiation to create what we now know as the x-ray. Roentgen was exploring the path of electrical rays passing from an induction coil through a partially evacuated glass tube.Although the tube was covered in black paper and the room was completely dark, he noticed that a screen covered in fluorescent material was illuminated by the rays. He later realised that a number of objects could be penetrated by these rays,.He later used a photographic plate instead of a screen, and an image was captured. For the first time ever the internal structures of the body could be made visible without the necessity of surgery. The first image created by his x-ray Roentgen was an image of his wife’s hand, noted by the wedding ring.