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How the Microwave Was Invented by Accident Pictorial Parade - Getty Images. Yes, the microwave oven was invented accidentally, when a test for a magnetron melted an engineer’s snack in 1946.
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.
Webster Wagner (1817–1882) died in a train accident, crushed between two of the railway sleeper cars he had invented. [40] Henri Thuile (died 1900), inventor of the large high-speed Thuile steam locomotive, died during a test run between Chartres and Orléans.
Bacon jerky was invented by accident when a meat processing team in Iowa was trying to create a thicker type of precooked bacon. [5] A few years before this, it was independently invented by Rocco Loosbrock.
Coover was born in Newark, Delaware.He lived in Delaware until his teen years. During this time he was hit by a train while driving which resulted in him being in a coma for about six weeks.
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Snodgrass is credited with having invented (by accident, he says) color changing glass, a type of borosilicate glass mixed with gold and/or silver, which changes colors as the dark resin builds up on the inside of the glass. The documentary film Degenerate Art depicts the glass subculture that Snodgrass helped to create. He has been called the ...
The production of cheese predates recorded history, beginning well over 7,000 years ago. [1] [2] [3] Humans likely developed cheese and other dairy foods by accident, as a result of storing and transporting milk in bladders made of ruminants' stomachs, as their inherent supply of rennet would encourage curdling.