A note
There is a thin line between a brilliant innovation and an absolute failure and history is littered with brilliant people whose chance discoveries and accidental inventions have shaped the world we live in. Following are some of the famous examples:
Bakelite plastic
A man named Leo Baekeland decided to make a new type of covering for wire; before that electric wires were covered with ‘shellac.’ Instead, Baekeland discovered how to make the first plastic, called Bakelite plastic.
Saccharin
In 1879 a man named Constantin Fahlberg was trying to discover new uses for coal tar. When at lunch time he sat down to eat a sandwich, without washing hands, his bread tasted sweet. So, he tasted some of the chemicals he has been working with, one of them was very sweet. It was called saccharin and can be used instead of sugar to make things sweet.
Play-doh
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