51 Accidental Inventions that Changed the World

✍ Scribed by Kimte Guite

• Publisher: Rupa Publications India
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Did you know?
• Ice-lollies were invented when a little boy left a glass of soda water out on a chilly night.
• Potato chips were the result of a chef wanting to teach an annoying customer a lesson.
• And sandwiches were made when an Earl did not want to get his hands dirty while eating.

This book is about the good stuff. The wonderful inventions we now cannot live without—from
high-heels to tea-bags, pencils to x-rays, each story is an amazing mix of luck and a whole lot of
perseverance and hard work.

Imagine what our hot summers would be without ice-lolly? The horrors of never tasting potatochips!
What would we do without our quick-fix Superglue? We hardly give a thought to the many
little things we use every day. Don’t you think it’s time we learnt about a few stories of origin?
Where do they come from? Who invented them and how?

Learn about 51 fascinating stories of inventions in a book blending adorable, simple illustrations
with lively text bursting with facts. Who knows, you might accidentally come up with an invention
one day too!

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1. Anaesthesia
2. Antiseptic
3. Blood Types
4. Brandy
5. Cement
6. Chewing Gum
7. Chocolate Chip cookie
8. Clocks
9. Coca-Cola
10. Compass
11. Cornflakes
12. Disposable Diaper
13. Dynamite
14. EnChroma Glasses
15. Gunpowder
16. Hypodermic Syringe
17. Ice Cream Cone
18. Pacemaker
19. Kevlar
20. Liquid Paper
21. Matchsticks
22. Microwave Ovens
23. Modern High Heels
24. Monopoly
25. Paper
26. Pencils
27. Penicillin
28. Plastic
29. Play-doh
30. Pneumatic Tyres
31. Popsicles
32. Post-it Notes
33. Potato Chips
34. Radioactivity
35. Safety Glasses
36. Sandwich
37. Sanitary Pad
38. Silk
39. Stainless Steel
40. Superglue
41. Synthetic Dyes
42. Teabags
43. Teflon
44. The Wheel
45. Thermal Inkjet Printer
46. Tofu
47. Smallpox Vaccine
48. Vaseline
49. Velcro
50. Vulcanized Rubber
51. X-rays
Conclusion
Acknowledgements