Accidental Inventions That Changed History

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misslily A physicist experimenting with cathode rays noticed a mysterious glow that revealed the bones in his hand.

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misslily An engineer grabbed the wrong electrical component and ended up inventing the implantable cardiac pacemaker.

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Fun Facts

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Fun Fact

Penicillin production: During World War II, scientists used a moldy cantaloupe from a market in Peoria, Illinois, to mass-produce penicillin, increasing the drug's yield by 200 times.

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Quizzes

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Which electrical component did Wilson Greatbatch accidentally use to invent the pacemaker?

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Which gas did dentist Horace Wells observe at a public demonstration before using it for surgery?

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What type of bacteria was being destroyed by the mold in Alexander Fleming's petri dish?

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What was the original profession of Horace Wells, the pioneer of surgical anesthesia?

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What did Wilhelm Röntgen name the mysterious rays he discovered in 1895?

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In which decade was the first successful implantable cardiac pacemaker placed in a human patient?

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Who was the first person to have their hand X-rayed by Wilhelm Röntgen?

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In what year did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin in his London laboratory?

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Glossary

penicillin (noun)
An organic compound obtained from certain molds and used as an antibiotic to treat bacterial infections. Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered the substance in 1928 after mold contaminated a petri dish in London.