From around 1914
Posted on 07/12/2016 6:07:12 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Yeah that too, and I heard it really caused that drug companies sales to spring higher.
This could be a big breakthrough for solar power.
It could make it economically viable by providing a cheap and long life means of storing the energy for use when it is dark or there is peak demand.
It is limiting to have a power source that only works well in bright daylight.
If there ever was such a thing...it didn't put out much HP. Like a Honda 50.
Previous article here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3423047/posts
NOT a dupe, just another article from the month of April about the same breakthrough from UC Irvine.
Don’t forget Post It Notes.
You can use then to list the other accidents.
I read it as researchers in WW2 in England noticing that high output high frequency RF from their new cavity magnetron could heat up anything that had water in it... and the fact that rain lowered the effective range of the radar..the water absorbed the energy. This is also what happens when it rains and Direct TV fades out.
Before the cavity magnetron the Brits used the 10 meter HF shortwave band for radar. It was called the Chain Home system and used antennas mounted on towers along the coast. The antennas were simple wide-band antennas still in use today by Ham Radio operators...the Double Bazooka.
Exactly!
Nitro glycerin was discovered to have medicinal uses when workers that happened to suffer from angina at a munitions plant discovered that it would sometime abruptly stop during the work day.
It happened if they touched their tongue with a finger that had nitro residue on it.
Poor hand-washing leads to valuable medical treatment.
It is not a scientific discovery. It is an engineering discovery.
Most advances are engineering discoveries.
Yes, serendipity of a sort. A lot of “cut and try”.
Edison said 99% of invention is perspiration, or something close to that.
Why don’t you put your thoughts down on a “Post It” or bounce it around with Silly Putty.../S
LoL :-)
Exactly.
Going back a little further, Ivory soap’s floatiness was found when a batch operator went to lunch leaving the mixer paddles on, putting too much air in the soap mix. Rather than throw it out, they found the bars of soap would float. Voila!
Lexan. GE. 1953.
The rest is history.
Great! And instead of using sparse reserves of Lithium, we can use... GOLD? Dammit. Oh, well... still really cool.
Don’t forget ductile iron...my favorite miracle breakthrough.
There was no accident; just bad writing and lack of comprehension on the journolist’s part.
and Viagra?
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