Hello fellas, the following are some of the things that are created accidentally by the creators when they wanted to do something else.
- The Microwave Oven :
- The engineer was doing his job as usual when he noticed that the candy bar in his pocket had melted.
- Quickly Spencer realized that it was the magnetrons that were causing this phenomenon.
- By 1945, he had filed a patent for his metal cooking box powered by microwaves.
2. Chocolate Chip Cookies :
- Ruth Graves Wakefield, co-owner of the Toll House Inn, was preparing some chocolate cookies for her guests when she realized that she was out of baker’s chocolate.
- Thinking on her feet, Wakefield decided to chop up a block of Nestle semi-sweet chocolate, assuming that it would melt and spread evenly throughout the batter.
- Instead, what came out of the oven was the very first batch of chocolate chip cookies.
3. Matches:
- In 1826, chemist John Walker he accidentally scraped a stick coated in chemicals across his hearth and found that it caught fire.
- Walker’s “Friction Lights,” as he called them, were originally made out of cardboard, but eventually he switched over to using wooden splints and sandpaper.
4. Vaseline:
- Robert Augustus Chesebrough decided to head to the town where the product had been discovered to play around with it a bit.
- While there, Chesebrough observed that the men drilling the petroleum would use a byproduct of the process on their skin to soothe and heal cuts and burns.
- Later, he turned this observation into the product known today as Vaseline.
5. Bubble Wrap:
- Engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes did invent bubble wrap on purpose. But when they made it, the intended use for the product was all wallpaper, not as packing material.
- when their bubbly wallpaper proved to be unsuccessful the two entrepreneurs decided to pivot and market their product instead as greenhouse insulation and later in 1960 as protective packaging.
