Five Eureka Moments That Changed our Lives Forever
Here are some big
discoveries and inventions that happened by accident i.e. Velcro, Vulcanised rubber, Coca-cola, Viagra and Teflon
Velcro:
Snacking, it appears, is good for
science! And so is getting some fresh air now and then. On one of his hiking
trips, swiss engineer Georges de Mestral found burrs (seeds) clinging to his
pants. He noticed that it would cling to anything loop-shaped. The challenge
was to create the loops artificially and the result -Velcro, a combination of
velvet and crochet
Vulcanised Rubber:
After years of trial and error to
make natural rubber more durable, in 1839 scientist Charles Goodyear accidently
dropped his experimental rubber in a hot stove.
What came out was a charred
leather-like substance. Rubber was weatherproof now and forever
Coca-Cola:
The inventor of Coca-Cola was not a
shrewd businessman but a pharmacist looking for a cure for headache! For his
hopeful headache cure, he used cola nut and cola leaves and when his lab
assistant accidently mixed the two with carbonated water, whizz, was
born a carbonated drink that remains a bestseller
Viagra:
Pfizer developed a pill called
UK92480 to help constrict coronary arteries to relieve pain. The pill failed at
that -but was a success with what it is now known for -a magic wand l to
improve men's sexual health and was marketed with the name Viagra Big Bang: The
discovery of the theory began with a noise from an antenna that left Radio
astronomer Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias perplexed, who later came to the
conclusion that radiation leftover from a universe forming big bang would now
act as background cosmic radiation. The two would later go on to receive Nobel
Prize in Physics for their discovery
Teflon:
In 1938, Roy Plunkett, a scientist
with DuPont was looking for alternatives to refrigerant. As he opened the box
of one of his samples, he noticed that his experimental gas was gone and what
was left was a slippery resin extremely resistant to heat and chemicals. It
later found usage in non stick cookware, sports equipment and paints, among
other things.
ETM8MAR15
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