Not everything that we rely on each day was actually
Intended to be created some were just straight-up
Accidents. So what are some of these accidental discoveries that actually change how we live our lives today?
My name is Leroy Kenton and welcome to another episode of FTD facts and let's jump right in coca-cola is at number 10
Pharmacist John Pemberton was working on a cure for headaches
He was using the main ingredients coca leaves and Kola nuts his assistant
Accidentally mixed both with carbonated water and poof coke was invented and the recipe began to be perfected over the years
Chewing gum is up next back in the year
1870 Thomas Adams was experimenting with a South American tree sap called chicle
He planned to use it as a substitute for rubber, but after so many failed experiments
He threw a piece in his mouth and he started to chew on it
He surprisingly liked it and turned it into Chiclets chewing gum when it comes to Botox
There was a couple by the name of Alastair and Jean carrithers
They were using small portions of a toxin to treat crossed eyes as well as eyelid spasms and other eye muscle
Disorders and that's when they noticed that one of the side effects was that wrinkles began to?
Disappear giving birth to the Botox industry as we know it today Swiss engineer
George de Mestral was out hunting and got annoyed of the burrs sticking to his dog's fur as well as to his socks
He decided to examine the birds under a microscope and he noticed tiny hooks George de Mestral
Experimented for several years, but 20 years later NASA was actually the ones that popularized
Velcro in at number 6 is Teflon chemist Roy Plunkett was trying to create a new type of chlorofluorocarbons
Aka CFCs, and now the refrigerated container was supposed to be full of gas
But he found a slippery resin that was resistant to extreme heat and other chemicals instead of the gas
So Roy Plunkett started to experiment with the resin and now Teflon is used in the military as well as in
nonstick pots and pans among other uses
saccharin comes in at number
5 in the year 1879 era Remsen and Constantin Fahlberg were working in their at the John Hopkins
University and Constantin Fahlberg
Accidentally spilled a chemical mixture on his hand
he then later noticed a sweet taste of it later on while he was eating and he secretly
Decided to patent the mixture without telling era Remsen the zero calorie sweetener called
Saccharin can now be found in packets
everywhere vulcanized rubber is another
Revolutionary discovery that has changed how we live our lives in the 1830s natural rubber had many different uses
however
It wasn't really able to withstand a lot of extreme cold or heat chemists Charles Goodyear
Accidentally dropped some rubber mixed with sulfur on a hot stove
The process of vulcanization was discovered at that moment rubber actually
hardens
When heated with sulfur the Goodyear Tire Company was named after him 40 years later after he passed away
leading off the top three in this list is
x-rays in
1895 a German physicist named wilheim rut Gunn was working with cathode rays and notice that there was some fluorescent
Cardboard that began to illuminate from the other side of the room
There was a pretty thick screen between the cathode emitter and the cardboard this showed that light particles could travel through solid
Objects, he took the first x-ray photo which was a skeletal image of his wife's hand. Anesthesia was also discovered by accident
Nitrous oxide aka laughing gas used to be pretty much something that people would use for fun at parties to laugh like crazy
In 1884 a friend of Horace Wells an American dentist
Accidentally took too much laughing gas and cut his leg pretty badly
He didn't even feel it or even realize that his leg was gashed open like that from that moment
Nitrous oxide became one of the early forms of anesthesia. And at number one we have the microwave in
1945 engineer Percy Spencer was tinkering with a
Magnetron that emitted microwaves a chocolate bar in his pocket
began to melt and he realized that this meant that there would be many more uses for this when it came to food and from
There the microwave oven was born
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