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---------------- 1965 - INVENTIONS - by accident.
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- You probably have heard the expression: “ I would rather be lucky than good.”
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- Then that other expression: “You need to make your own luck”.
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- It helps if you are thinking and observing when luck comes along. Here are some examples:
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- When Jean Baptiste Jolly spilled his oil lamp containing distilled turpentine on his wife’s table cloth, he immediately cleaned it up . What amazed him was the table cloth got cleaner than ever before. He invented dry cleaning. Of course, better liquids were later found. Turns out working with turpentine is not too healthy.
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- When Alfred Nobel was transporting sensitive material in glass flasks packed in soil, a flask broke. The nitroglycerin soaked into the soil , making the explosive material much easier to handle. Dynamite was invented. Nitroglycerin was just to dangerous to handle in liquid form.
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- Percy L. Spencer was working on Raytheon’s radar equipment. He had a candy bar in his pocket. It melted. Interesting? So, he put a bag of un-popped popcorn in front of the radar. It popped. The microwave oven was discovered. Percy always had a warm lunch.
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- In 1940 Georges de Mestral walked through the woods and came home with his pants covered with “ cockleburs”. They were little burrs with hooks on the end. He studied them under a microscope. He could see how the hooks were working themselves into the cloth. He discovered “ Velcro”.
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- I can never decide what is a discovery and what is an invention?????-
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- In 1965 James Schlatter was working with drugs designed to treat ulcers. He got some on his hands and licked his fingers. It tasted like sugar. Artificial sweeteners were discovered. You should not make a habit of tasting chemistry. You might discover rat poison.
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- Robert Cheesbrough in 1859 was watching oil workers scrub the waxy substance off their machinery. The workers told him that this “ rod wax” was good on wounds helping them to heal faster. It took Robert 10 years to develop rod wax into colorless, odorless petroleum jelly - “ Vaseline”.
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- Renek Antoine Ferchault de Reamon took up a whole sentence with his name. But, in the 1700’s he was smart enough to observe how wasps made their nests out of wood shavings. At the time, 1700’s, paper was made from cotton rags. Reamon better paper could be made out of wood. That’s what the wasps do. Now trees in the south are grown just for that purpose, wood pulp.
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- Roy Plunkett was a chemist in 1938 when a refrigerant he was working with suddenly turned from a gas to a oily white powder. The slippery powder was inert. It was kept as a secret during World War II. Roy had discovered, “Teflon“.
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- So the trick is when accidents happen , pay attention. I could be worth $millions.
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