Most things in life are not good when you plan them. The best things cannot be planned, they happen without you doing much about them. It is the same case with these awesome products. They just happened.
1. Popsicles
1. Popsicles
The first Popsicle was invented by accident in 1905 when 11-year -old Frank Epperson left his soda making tools in the cold. When he came back next day he saw that the soda around the stick was frozen, creating the first Popsicle. When he grew up he applied his patent.
2. Chocolate Chips Cookies
Many would never have guessed that chocolate chip cookies were invented by accident. It happened when Ruth Wakefield, the owner of the Toll House Inn in Wakefield, Massachusetts, was trying to bake a chocolate dessert for her guests. The chips didn’t melt thoroughly and that is when this yummy product was invented.
3. Rogaine
This hair loss product was invented when the scientists have noticed that a blood pressure drug Loniten helps make hair ticker.
4. Microwave Ovens
An engineer discovered that a candy bar in his pocket had melted while he was working with a magnetron device that was used in military radar systems. In that very year, 1945, Mercy Spencer developed his invention.
5. Viagra
It was invented by Pfizer scientists. They were working on a drug for heart problems but ended up getting something completely different. The drug’ was sending blood flow to another area of the body. And that’s how Viagra was invented.
6. Play-Doh
This awesome product for children didn’t serve its initial use. It was supposed to be a window cleaner.
7. Fire Works
An old Chinese legend says that fireworks were invented when a cook mixed charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter.