Ooooops Discoveries

‘Oooops’, that word could mean you’ve discovered or invented something new…

Don’t catch my drift?, Well, let me explain.Natasha Stillwell of EXN had compiled a list of Ten Accidental Discoveries, you know,the kind where you didn’t mean to discover?

Natasha called it ‘Top Ten Accidental Discoveries’, and she actually posted this way back in April 2004, but it’s good enough to be of use to us even till today.

Among the top ten discoveries:

2. X- Rays

X-Rays were discovered in 1895 by the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. He was actually studying cathode rays, the phosphorescent stream of electrons used today in everything from televisions to fluorescent light bulbs.

8. Superglue

Superglue, or Krazy Glue, is actually a substance called ‘cyanoacrylate’. Dr. Harry Coover accidentally discovered it twice, the first time in 1942, when he was trying to develop an optically clear plastic for gun sights and the second time nine years later, when he was trying to develop a heat-resistant polymer for jet canopies.

View the top ten HERE