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Top 10 Accidental Inventions That Changed the World
Plato once said, “science is nothing but perception.” Generally, non-experts argue that inventions are only done in big laboratories with lot of chemicals and major complexities. They also argue that such kinds of complexities are generally out of the understanding capability of the typical person. But, not many people know that the majority of objects, which we use daily, have not been invented in these big laboratories. Many of them were actually invented by accident by ordinary people. This article discusses the top 10 everyday objects you didn’t know were invented by accident.
10. Sweetener
If Constantine Fahlberg had not committed this mistake, we might have never tasted artificial sugar. Once, he forgot to wash hands before taking his meal, when he came out of laboratory. Bread tasted very sweet to him, he thought at once that bread was not normal one, but sweetened one. Then, when he washed his mouth and dried it with a napkin, napkin also tasted sweet. Then, he tasted his own thumb; this was how saccharin was invented.
9. Potato Chips
Did you know that the first potato chip was meant as an insult. Potato chips were actual French fries, which on the complaint of a customer were baked too thin. George Crum, inventor of potato chips, was the luck chef. A customer complained that the fries he was cooking were too thick. He delivered thinner French fries to him. But the customer was not happy once again. This time, George decided to irritate him, so he baked paper thin fries. The client loved then this way, and so the potato chips got popular.
8. Coca Cola
Pharmacist John Pemberton was desperately attempting to concoct a medical remedy for his headaches, so he dumped together a bunch of ingredients into a kettle. In the process, he created a recipe that still remains a secret today – Coca Cola. The first print ad for Coca-Cola appeared in The Atlanta Journal soon after the invention, inviting thirsty drinkers to try “the new and popular soda fountain drink.”
7. Matches
For hundreds of thousands years, people have been playing with and lighting fires. But no one could create a really easy way to start a fire until a British pharmacist tried to clean stirring utensils. In 1826, John Walker was stirring a pot of chemicals when he noticed a dried lump had formed on the end of those sticks. Without comprehending what had happened, he tried to scrape off the dried gob and – all of a sudden – it ignited.
6. Plastic
Can anyone imagine carrying water bottles made entirely from clay or using disposable utensils out of eggs and animal blood? The story behind the invention of plastic says that were it not for two accidents, those might be the materials we’d be using today.
So how exactly was Plastics invention. In the lab of Charles Goodyear, Goodyear combined rubber and sulfur and accidentally put it on the stove for a long while. When he came back, he found a tough and durable material–created through a process now known as vulcanization – plastics.
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