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Four inventors they're almost all accidents

Four inventors they're almost all accidents

  • Alexander Fleming discovered the anti-bacterial properties of penicillin because a sample of bacteria had accidentally been contaminated with mold.
  • Charles Goodyear discovered vulcanized rubber when a batch of rubber was accidentally left on a stove; Goodyear had thought that heat was a problem for rubber, not solution.
  • Wilson Greatbatch developed the pacemaker when he accidentally grabbed the wrong resistor from a box when he was completing a circuit.
  • Louis Daguerre invented film when, having failed to produce an image on an iodized silver plate.

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