Chowder, Ken,

Eureka!. Ken Chowder. - Smithsonian, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 79, Science, 1522-3264; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Eureka!, Sept. 2003; pp. 92+.

"Accident and serendipity played their parts in the inventions of penicillin, the World Wide Web and the Segway super scooter. But as Louis Pasteur once noted, 'Chance favors only the prepared mind.'" (SMITHSONIAN) This article discusses numerous inventions that came about simply by accident.

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Cotton gins and ginning
Dyes and dyeing
Inventions
Matches
Microwave ovens
Penicillin
Popsicles
Rubber
Serendipity in science
Sticky notes
Teflon
Telephone stations
Telescopes
World Wide Web
Xerography

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