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  2. 19 Accidental Inventions That We Can't Live Without Now - AOL

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    5. Play-Doh. Who: Kay Zufall, Brian, Joseph McVicker, Bill Rhodenbaugh When: 1956 . How it was created: The gooey toy kids have been playing with for decades began as a household cleaning product ...

  3. List of discoveries influenced by chance circumstances

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    Royston Roberts says that various discoveries required a degree of genius, but also some lucky element for that genius to act on. [1] Richard Gaughan writes that accidental discoveries result from the convergence of preparation, opportunity, and desire.

  4. List of lost inventions - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of lost inventions - technologies whose original capabilities cannot be recreated in the same form anymore. It does not include theoretical inventions. It does not include theoretical inventions.

  5. Did you know these inventions were discovered by accident in ...

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    Here are some of the accidental inventions that originated in the Garden State: ... Helping to print its history was an invention theorized following an accident at a small paper mill and ...

  6. Serendipity - Wikipedia

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    The concept is often associated with scientific and technological breakthroughs, where accidental discoveries led to new insights or inventions. Many significant discoveries in history were serendipitous, including penicillin, Post-it notes, Viagra, and the microwave, arising from unforeseen circumstances that were then recognized and ...

  7. 5 flops from the world's most famous inventors - AOL

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    One of his inventions was a tank, which you can see on the bottom right. The armored tank would go ahead of foot soldiers and had holes that could be used to shoot projectiles. But as it was drawn ...

  8. Role of chance in scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Psychologist Kevin Dunbar and colleagues estimate that between 30% and 50% of all scientific discoveries are accidental in some sense (see examples below). [2] Scientists themselves in the 19th and 20th century acknowledged the role of fortunate luck or serendipity in discoveries.

  9. Accidental Inventions That We Use Every Day - AOL

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