Life-Changing Inventions that were accidental
Life-Changing Inventions that were accidental

Life-Changing Inventions that were accidental

The Sentinel Life-Changing Inventions that were accidental Dec 19, 2022
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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

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