Reels tagged #accidents
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A melted chocolate bar led to the microwave oven
Engineer Percy Spencer noticed a bar melting in his pocket near a radar magnetron in 1945. He tried popcorn next, and the microwave oven was born.
Inventions
The Post-it note started as a failed superglue
3M chemist Spencer Silver made an adhesive that was too weak. Years later a colleague used it to keep bookmarks in his hymn book, and a billion-dollar product appeared.
Inventions
Vulcanised rubber came from a dropped sample
Charles Goodyear accidentally let a rubber and sulphur mixture hit a hot stove in 1839. Instead of melting it toughened, making tyres possible.