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

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    Play-Doh was originally called Rainbow Modeling Compound and used to clean wallpaper. A NJ nursery school teacher found it was fun to use as a toy.

  3. 50 Beautiful Pictures Of ‘Art’ That Happened Completely By ...

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    Image credits: shawneffel Art imitates life. And if you look closely enough, art also is life.The photos from this list prove that there can be beauty in the most mundane and random moments if we ...

  4. 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.

  5. “Timestamped Pictures”: 50 Random Things People Did That ...

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    Image credits: TapDangerous1996 #6. I took out salary continuance insurance until I was 65 instead of just the 2 years I was originally thinking. I was only 35 when I did that.

  6. Forensic photography - Wikipedia

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    Regardless of how it is done any person who handles the evidence must be recorded. Secure Digital Forensic Imaging methods may be applied to help ensure against tampering and improper disclosure. [10] Accident scene pictures should also be identified and sourced, police photographs taken at the scene are often used in civil cases.

  7. Instant camera - Wikipedia

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    Polaroid also invented and manufactured an instant movie camera system called Polavision. The kit included a camera, film, and a movie viewer. When the movie was shot, it would be taken out of the camera and then inserted into the viewer for development, then viewed after development. This format was close to Super 8 mm film. Polavision film ...

  8. The Microwave Was Invented Utterly by Accident One Fateful ...

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    The true story is that it was invented utterly by accident one fateful day more than 70 years ago, when a Raytheon engineer named Percy Spencer was testing a military-grade magnetron and suddenly ...

  9. Thaumatrope - Wikipedia

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    British mathematician Charles Babbage recalled in 1864 that the thaumatrope was invented by the geologist William Henry Fitton. Babbage had told Fitton how the astronomer John Herschel had challenged him to show both sides of a shilling at once. Babbage held the coin in front of a mirror, but Herschel showed how both sides were visible when the ...