When you look at all of the stuff humans have invented you would suspect that these came-to-be
through an exact methodology.
Preeeecise like a laser!
Whether it was new medicines or technology or a sort'a cool toy or food...even.
And what if we told you some of the most known inventions were totally accidental?
Mmmmm...accidental food!
Don't believe me?
Well, check out our list of 10 Amazing Inventions Created Completely By Accident.
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Coca-Cola A cold Coke definitely hits the spot and it
also cures many maladies like morphine addiction, indigestion, nerve disorders, headaches and
even impotence.
According to Colonel John Pemberton, Coca-Cola's original inventor.
Injured during the American Civil War he became addicted to morphine but vowed to get clean
by inventing a substitute.
In 1885 he rolled out Pemberton's French Wine Coca nerve tonic.
The next year Prohibition laws forced Pemberton to make a non-alcoholic version.
Legend has it that in 1886 the owner of the popular Willis Venable's sofa fountain accidentlly
served Pemberton's concoction with carbonated water.
Microwave Ovens Convenience is king these days and who has
time to wait for a hot dog to boil to prefection.
None the less the first food unintentionally cooked by a microwave was a candy bar.
In 1945, Percy Spencer was experimenting with high-power microwave beams while working at
Raytheon.
The chocolate bar in question was in his pocket but the sticky mess was the eureka moment
to change kitchens world-wide.
The first intentional food microwaved was Popcorn.
In 1947, Raytheon built the Radarange which was a clunky 750 pounds, was 5 1/2 feet tall
and cost a whopping $5,000.
In 1967, a more accessable version was introduced and sold for $495.
The Sandwich Probably the perfect food for your busy modern
life.
Try eating steaming hot Ramin when driving to a job interview.
Back in the 1700's things were considerably slower paced, except for John Montagu, fourth
Earl of Sandwich.
Sandwich was a busy dude.
He held various political offices and military posts but he's best know for inventing the
sandwich.
The Earl was a voracious gambler and the only meal he would eat during cards was salted
meat and bread.
However, Sandwich's biographer suggests he was too busy with official commitments and
to the arts he most likely ate the world's first 'sammy' at his work desk.
X Rays Are you particuarly squeamish at the sight
of bones, especially your own?
Then you can blame Wilhelm Röntgen for that.
Back in 1895 the German Phisicist was playing around with some Crookes Tubes, exploring
cathode rays and the energetic electron beams created in the vacuum tubes.
Employing a fluorescent screen painted with barium platinocyanide and wrapping the Crookes
Tube in black cardboard to isolate light from the tube, he cracked off a few shots.
He realised that invisible rays passed through the cardboard and produced a faint green glow
on the screen.
That got the wheels turning.
The first medical X-Ray ever taken was of Röntgen's wife's hand.
Anna Bertha Ludwig saw the picture and explaimed " I have seen my death."
The Colour Mauve William Perkin was a precocious adelescant
who at the age of 15 was accepted into the Royal College of Chemistry.
During his tutilage under August Wilhelm von Hofmann, the professor had published a hypothesis
on developing synthetic quinine – an expensive natural substance that might be crucial in
fighting malaria.
As one of Hoffman's assistants, Perkin performed experiments for this end.
However, Perkin accidentally discovered that the organic compound aniline when manipulated
produced a vibrant shade of purple.
Perkin with his brother and a friend refined the process in secret to incredible success,
producing a colour to dye for.
The Pacemaker This one is a huge happy accident for roughly
three million people worldwide.
In the 1950's Wilson Greatbatch left the Navy and was working as a medical researcher.
One project was to build an oscillator that could record heart sounds.
In the process of building it he mistakenly installed the wrong resistor.
He turned it on and noticed that it produced a rythmic electrical pulse.
Immediately he realised that this could be incredibly beneficial to people with natural
heart pace problems.
Before the device was small enough to go inside of people the prototypes were the of TV's
and were prone to delivering electrical shocks.
The first successful pacemaker implant occured in 1958.
Silly Putty It's weird to think that something with such
a light hearted name could be the by-product of something very serious.
During World War Two the Japanese military took many rubber producing countries so deperately
needed by the Allies to produce materials for the war effort.
The rubber shortage caused a two groups of inventors to research what is now Silly Putty.
Despite the fact that is exhibited some promising qualities such as: it's bounciness, greater
elasticity than regular rubber, anti-mold and a high melting temperature the Putty didn't
have what it took to replace rubber.
Now if they had only researched how to make an army of Silly Putty soldiers.
Penicillin If Alexander Fleming's mother had harped on
him to clean his room as a child then maaaybe we might not have the miracle drug Penicillin.
In 1928, Fleming had returned to his untidy laboratory after a family get-away.
Prior to leaving Fleming had left cultures of staphylococci on a bench in the corner
of the Lab.
What he noticed in his absence was the culture had been contaminated by fungus, which had
neutralized the colonies of staphylococci in it's vacinity.
In Fleming's own words, "When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly
didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic,
or bacteria killer but I suppose that was exactly what I did.”
Saccharin (Artificial Sweeteners) It may not be food per sey but it does pass
the lips of millions of dieters.
Fitting that it was discovered by the inventor's taste buds.
Contantin Fahlberg, a Russian chemist working at John Hopkins University was tinkering with
coal tar derivatives to no avail.
He was so engrossed with his work he forgot to eat dinner and took a late meal.
He also forgot to wash his hands.
Eating a piece of bread he noticed a sweet flavour.
In fact, everything he touched was sweet.
He rushed back to the Lab and licked every beaker and pitri dish until he found the right
one.
Sweeeeet!
Potato Chips Ol' buddy.
You always make that bus ride home after work so much more tolerable.
But the popular snack has come a long way from a humble plain chip to a slew of neuveau
flavours, like Montreal Steak Spice or Momma's Tired Sooo You're On You're Own!
Ok, I'm making the last one up.
The first record of the potato chip was in William Kitchiner's cook book, The Cook's
Oracle in 1817.
However, ol' Frito didn't Lay down roots until 1853 when a parton of Moon's Lake House in
Saratoga Springs, New York repeatedly sent his dinner to the kitchen, claiming that the
potatoes were too thick.
Out of spite the cook, Charles Crum sliced them razor thin, fried the crap out them and
added a lot more salt.
The customer loved them and now we all do too.
So there you have it, that's our 10 Amazing Inventions Created Completely By Accident.
Do these discoveries astonish you?
Can you think of any accidental gold that we have missed.
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