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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 ...
Jacques Edwin Brandenberger (19 October 1872 – 13 July 1954) was a Swiss chemist and textile engineer who in 1908 invented cellophane. He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1937. Brandenberger was born in Zurich in 1872. He graduated from the University of Bern in 1895. In 1908 Brandenberger invented cellophane.
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.
Richard Gurley Drew (June 22, 1899 – December 14, 1980) was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape.
Image credits: Sasha Weilbaker #7 Solar Panels. While both solar panels and plant leaves harvest energy from the sun, a team at Princeton University took biomimicry in solar panels a step further ...
Here are some of the accidental inventions that originated in the Garden State: Teflon. Branded in 1944, Teflon was initially introduced for military and industrial purposes after World War II ...
"The Invention of a Cellophane, The Eruption of Mt. Edgecumbe, The King in the Parking Lot" April 3, 2015 () 89: 2 "Invention of the Mile High Club, The Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson, Zip to Zap" April 10, 2015 () 90: 3 "Opera Riot, Golfer Behind Enemy Lines, The Great Mail Train Robbery" April 17, 2015 () 91: 4
The global artificial flowers market is predicted to reach $1.78 billion this year. Bewilderingly, faux flowers—the upmarket term for fake—are even presented as a green alternative.