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