Eureka!. Ken Chowder.
by Chowder, Ken; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 79Science. Publisher: Smithsonian, 2003ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): 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 | XerographyDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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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