ACCIDENTALLY Invented

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ACCIDENTALLY Invented 
2000 YEARS AGO
FIREWORKS

Inventor: An unknown cook in

China

What he was trying to make: According to legend, the cook was simply experimenting in the kitchen.

How it was created: A cook accidentally mixed together charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter. When the mixture was compressed in a bamboo tube (why the cook did that I have no idea), it exploded.




1826
MATCHES

Inventor: John Walker

What he was trying to make: He was just trying to ignite fire at his house.

How it was created: When he accidentally scraped a stick coated in chemicals across his hearth (Fireplace) and found that it caught fire.Initially known as 'Friction Lights' , Matches were made of cardboard.

1886
COCA-COLA

Inventor: John Pemberton

What he was trying to make: He was trying to find a cure for headaches and hangovers.

How it was created: He concocted a syrup that was cordial made from wine and coca extract, which he called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. Several stories also tell that once a careless bartender at a soda fountain accidentally spritzed syrup with ice cold soda water instead of tap water.



1895
X-RAY

Inventor: Wilhelm Rontgen

What he was trying to make: He was interested in investigating the properties of cathodic ray tubes.

How it was created: When shining light through the tubes he noted fluorescent papers in his lab were illuminated even though his machine had an opaque cover.


1928
PENICILLIN

Inventor: Sir Alexander Fleming

What he was trying to make: Ironically, Fleming was searching for a "wonder drug" that could cure diseases.

How it was created: He noticed that a contaminated Petri dish he had discarded contained a mold that was dissolving all the bacteria around it. When he grew the mold by itself, he learned that it contained a powerful antibiotic, penicillin.

1956
THE PACEMAKER
Inventor: John Hopps
What he was trying to make: He was conducting research on hypothermia and was trying to use radio frequency heating to restore body temperatur

How it was created: During his experiment he realized if a heart stopped beating due to cooling, it could be started again by artificial stimulation. This realization led to the pacemaker

1957
BUBBLE WRAP
Inventor: Alfred Fielding & Marc Chavannes
What they were trying to make: They intended to use bubble wrap as a wallpaper, not as packing material.

How it was created: When their bubbly wallpaper proved to be unsuccessful, the two entrepreneurs decided to pivot and market their product instead as greenhouse insulation and later, in 1960, as protective packaging.


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