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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. 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.

4. Cellophane - Wikipedia

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   Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. Its low permeability to air , oils , greases , bacteria , and liquid water makes it useful for food packaging . Cellophane is highly permeable to water vapour , but may be coated with nitrocellulose lacquer to prevent this.

5. Celluloid - Wikipedia

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   Celluloids are a class of materials produced by mixing nitrocellulose and camphor, often with added dyes and other agents.Once much more common for its use as photographic film before the advent of safer methods, celluloid's common present-day uses are for manufacturing table tennis balls, musical instruments, combs, office equipment, fountain pen bodies, and guitar picks.

6. List of lost inventions - Wikipedia

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   [5] Roman flexible glass, whose inventor was reportedly beheaded so that gold and silver would not be devalued. [6] Mithridate, said to have functioned as a panaceaic antidote. [1] Sloot Digital Coding System, reported to have been able to store a complete digital movie file in 8 kilobytes of data. [7]

7. Accidental Inventions That We Use Every Day - AOL

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   Here are nine of the accidental inventions we use every day. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in ...

8. Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science - Wikipedia

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   0-471-60203-5 Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science is a 1989 popular science book by the chemist Royston M. Roberts. It received positive and mixed reviews; critics found it informative and entertaining, though some indicated that it contained errors.

9. 5 flops from the world's most famous inventors - AOL

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   Public Domain. Henry Ford is known for many things — the most prominent being mass-manufactured cars and paying workers respectable wages. But his first automobile, made in 1896, was powered by ...