These 10 inventions have made our lives easier and more beautiful. But did you know what connects them all? They're all caused by an accident.
1. Chewing gum
Chewing gum was actually a failed attempt to replace rubber. Thomas Adams used natural latex to replace rubber. Then he took it in his mouth, thinking that it is quite fun to chew it. He then added, taste and so the chewing gum was born in 1888.
2. Cornflakes
Doctor John Harvey Kellogg and William Keith Kellogg experimented with wheat and then they have forgotten a charge - which then was old. But they use this sample further. They diluted the surface and the Kellogg's Cornflakes as we know them today were born.
3. Microwave
Percy Spencer led the research project for the radar, hoping to create a new vacuum tube. During the project, he forgot a chocolate bar in the tube, wich then suddenly began to melt. Then he put grain into the machine and it became popcorn. He knew he had invented something groundbreaking.
4. Chocolate cookies
These biscuits were accidentally made by Ruth Graves Wakefield as she tried to make a chocolate dessert. When she realized she did not have enough chocolate, he simply put a few pieces of chocolate in the cookies.
5. Artificial sweeteners
The sweeteners were accidentally invented by the chemist Constantin Falberg in 1879. He had forgotten to clean up his hands after working with coal tar, before he went home. Everything he ate now was sweet! He realized that there was saccharine, which is used as a sugar substitute everywhere today.
6. Sanitary napkins
The predecessor of napkins was used in WW1 by nurses to bind up the wounds of soldiers. The women from the Red Cross soon became clear that these napkins may be used by women. The sanitary napkin was born.
7. Champagne
No one knows who invented it, but we know that the weather was crucial. Fermentation of wine is very dependent on the temperature. Since 1940 there were notable changes in climate. Due to the decrease of the temperature, it was not possible to ferment the grape completely. Thus it only reached the second phase of the fermentation - the champagne was born.
8. Fireworks
A Chinese cook accidentally mixed sulfur, charcoal and potassium nitrate. Those were normal things in the kitchen. When the cook all these ingredients pressed into a bamboo tube (we do not know why he did that), it exploded.
9. Potato Chips
You were invented in a New York restaurant as a guest ever complained that his potatoes were too thick and too soft. That made the chef and chef George Klum pissed. In Rage, he chopped the potatoes thin, baked it, salted it and serve it to the guest ... to his surprise, he wanted more and more of it.
10. Coca-Cola
Pharmacist John Pemberton invented it actually to treat headaches. The recipe is kept secret to this day, it is made up of many ingredients. We all know and love it today.
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