Most days we cruise through life not sparing a thought to where the many inventions in our life come from. Many of these inventions are purposeful, but a select few are accidental. So here are my top ten accidental discoveries and inventions that have helped shape the world as we know it. I hope you learn something new and I hope you enjoy. Fireworks Roughly 2,000 years in China a cook was experimenting with charcoal, sulphur and saltpetre – three items commonly found in kitchens back then – when he found that the mixture he’d created burned. He played about a bit with his new-found fire-powder, as any self-respecting kitchen-alchemist would, and found that when compressed into a bamboo tube it exploded. After a few more combinations the cook found that he could cause different coloured explosions and different effects to create what we now know as fireworks . Velcro Out on a hunting trip in 1948 with his trusty canine companion, Swiss engineer George de Mestral...
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