Sunday, March 15, 2015

TECH SPECIAL........ Five Eureka Moments That Changed our Lives Forever

Five Eureka Moments That Changed our Lives Forever


Here are some big discoveries and inventions that happened by accident i.e. Velcro, Vulcanised rubber, Coca-cola, Viagra  and Teflon

Velcro:
Snacking, it appears, is good for science! And so is getting some fresh air now and then. On one of his hiking trips, swiss engineer Georges de Mestral found burrs (seeds) clinging to his pants. He noticed that it would cling to anything loop-shaped. The challenge was to create the loops artificially and the result -Velcro, a combination of velvet and crochet

Vulcanised Rubber:
After years of trial and error to make natural rubber more durable, in 1839 scientist Charles Goodyear accidently dropped his experimental rubber in a hot stove.
What came out was a charred leather-like substance. Rubber was weatherproof now and forever

Coca-Cola:
The inventor of Coca-Cola was not a shrewd businessman but a pharmacist looking for a cure for headache! For his hopeful headache cure, he used cola nut and cola leaves and when his lab assistant accidently mixed the two with carbonated water, whizz, was born a carbonated drink that remains a bestseller

Viagra:
Pfizer developed a pill called UK92480 to help constrict coronary arteries to relieve pain. The pill failed at that -but was a success with what it is now known for -a magic wand l to improve men's sexual health and was marketed with the name Viagra Big Bang: The discovery of the theory began with a noise from an antenna that left Radio astronomer Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias perplexed, who later came to the conclusion that radiation leftover from a universe forming big bang would now act as background cosmic radiation. The two would later go on to receive Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery

Teflon:
In 1938, Roy Plunkett, a scientist with DuPont was looking for alternatives to refrigerant. As he opened the box of one of his samples, he noticed that his experimental gas was gone and what was left was a slippery resin extremely resistant to heat and chemicals. It later found usage in non stick cookware, sports equipment and paints, among other things.

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