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Seven greatest accidental inventions
San Antonio Express-News ^ | 04/04/2010 | Source: www.spike.com/blog/top-7-greatest/91870

Posted on 04/05/2010 10:12:05 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Edited on 04/05/2010 10:16:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

1. Penicillin

2. The Microwave

3. Coca-Cola

4. Velcro

5. Potato Chips

6. Dynamite

7. WD-40


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: accidents; imeanttodothat; inventions
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To: Responsibility2nd

My first and third daughters were accidents.

Actually, so was my fifth, but that was more alcohol-induced negligence than accident.


21 posted on 04/05/2010 10:31:01 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: MindBender26

WD-40 is also great to use on stainless steel appliance doors (refrig’s, etc.).. First you clean with 409, or something like that, then you buff with WD-40. Looks great and no streaks.


22 posted on 04/05/2010 10:33:20 AM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: KarlInOhio
You should have seen what they went through to get formula 409. This is 410; they backed away:


23 posted on 04/05/2010 10:34:54 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Lexan


24 posted on 04/05/2010 10:38:58 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Look, though....clearly an IM-plosion. Looks more like an artificial singularity in a 1G standard grav field.


25 posted on 04/05/2010 10:41:10 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: MindBender26

I can’t recall the comedian who quipped (I’m paraphrasing): “What happened to the guys who tested Preperation A through G?”


26 posted on 04/05/2010 10:43:07 AM PDT by whd23
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m glad I wasn’t the person who ‘accidentally’ discovered dynamite. If I was, I probably would not have survived to file the patent application.


27 posted on 04/05/2010 10:43:18 AM PDT by Vision Thing (He has a white house, and he wants to paint it black.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Velcro was no accident. Everyone knows the government got it from the dead aliens crashsite in Roswell, New Mexico........../tinfoil


28 posted on 04/05/2010 10:45:20 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Responsibility2nd
This is nonsense.

Velcro was not an accidental invention: See

Neither was Dynamite: See

Nor Coca Cola: See

Or the potato chip: See

Or WD-40: See

29 posted on 04/05/2010 10:46:30 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
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To: Vision Thing

You DO know the person that invented dynamite, don’t you?

He is now well known for useless prizes that should be found in Cracker Jack boxes.


30 posted on 04/05/2010 10:46:36 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: catnipman

Great. There’s always one in every thread.

A common sense poster who comes along with the facts.

Sheesh.

/sarc


31 posted on 04/05/2010 10:48:18 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Looks like someone in the schoolhouse just tried to divide by zero!


32 posted on 04/05/2010 10:52:24 AM PDT by Sax
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To: catnipman
Velcro was not an accidental invention: See

The inspiration for it was. The creation of it was not.

33 posted on 04/05/2010 10:57:15 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
These inventions should be called serendipitous, not accidental.

True examples include:

Goodyear and vulcanization of rubber.

Teflon

34 posted on 04/05/2010 11:00:36 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Responsibility2nd

Rogaine..
Originally a drug for high BP.

Hairy palms was a side effect. :)


35 posted on 04/05/2010 11:01:06 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Responsibility2nd
You DO know the person that invented dynamite, don’t you?

Nobel, as in Nobel prize.

36 posted on 04/05/2010 11:02:09 AM PDT by unixfox
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To: Responsibility2nd

Post-it notes


37 posted on 04/05/2010 11:06:57 AM PDT by vamoose
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To: Responsibility2nd

Your list is complete BS. Here are the 7 best real accidental inventions.

1. Beer
2. Beer
3. Beer
4. Beer
5. Beer
6. Beer
7. Beer


38 posted on 04/05/2010 11:14:59 AM PDT by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Yo. Here da man:


39 posted on 04/05/2010 11:22:03 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: IYAS9YAS
Velcro was not an accidental invention: See

The inspiration for it was. The creation of it was not.

Personally, I wouldn't label keen observation and intellectual curiosity as "accidental".

40 posted on 04/05/2010 12:47:22 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
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