Life-Changing Inventions that were accidental

X-ray Machine William Conrad Rontgen was experimenting on a vacuum tube covered in cardboard when he invented the X-ray machine

Microwave Over Percy Spencer was working with a microwave emitting magnetron when he invented the microwave over

Teflon Invented by Chemist Roy Plunkett when trying to create a new type of chlorofluorocarbon

Penicillin t was accidentally invented by Alexander Flaming when he left out cultures of Staphylococcus aureus in his lab

Implantable Pacemaker This was accidentally invented in 1956 while a professor, Wilson Greatbatch, was testing equipment to record heart sounds

Matchsticks John Walker accidentally scraped a stick coated in chemicals across his hearth and it lit up

Tea Bags It was originally intended for only shipping purposes but people loved the convenience of it

LSD The psychoactive properties was discovered accidentally when he was synthesising LSD-25