10 The Great Discovery Not Intentional

There are many discoveries that have been made in the history of both by scientists who dedicate their lives to the study or even by ordinary people. The following article discusses 10 things discovered by accident.

Louis Pasteur, the vaccine against rabies and anthrax among the many other discoveries in the medical field, once said "Luck sided with him the most ready."

In many ways the word is certainly true, but did you know that there are many discoveries that happened by accident?

The discovery occurred when the scientists are researching something else, or the discovery that it was not originally planned. Here is a list of 10 inventions happen by accident, may be useful and entertaining.

1. Saccharin ( Saccharin )

Saccharin or artificial sweeteners were discovered by accident by a chemist named Constantin Fahlberg origin Russia (1850-1910).

One day in 1879 after working all day in the lab, he forgot to wash his hands. That day he was "playing" with a mixture of charcoal and tobacco in order to examine its usefulness.

When dinner arrived home, he realized that he eat cake rolls as dinner taste more sweet and unusual. Asked his wife whether he gave sugar to the cake, which was answered not by his wife. The cookies taste like normal rolls are normal for her tongue.

Then Fahlberg realized that the sweet taste comes from the hands, and the next day he returned to his laboratory and began researching to find more saccharin.

Now saccharin claims can harm organs because they contain substances that can trigger and led to cancer. But the fact is these chemicals have spread to almost every fast food around the world and even mixed in natural organic sugar.

2. Smartdust Detection Tool

Smartdust is an instrument that detects mikroelektrik -mechanical that can detect a variety of things such as light, temperature, vibration, magnets, and more.

Smartdust discovered while a doctoral student University of California named Jamie Link, he is destroying a chip of silicon that is being learned. A few moments later he began to realize that the chip was still able to function as a sensor, although it has been turned into small pieces.

Sensors in the form of small flakes which later is called smartdust and very useful as a detection tool that can not be detected by conventional sensors, such as measuring the purity of the sea water and detect harmful particles in the air. 

Now, smartdust in claims can be used by people or institutions that favor the offense or even the military that can be abused to monitor each individual to wars. Many organizations and the world community condemns the use smardust for the benefit of monitoring, war and murder. Even chip smaller sized nano can also be incorporated into foods and beverages that eventually is in the body that are useful for monitoring individual wherever it is located. Its usefulness is that you can be monitored wherever located all over the world via satellite, even smartdust can be planted in the buildings, vehicles, food, beverages, animal or person's body even in the air can also be spread via chemtrails .

3. Kola drinks (Coke)

Drinks Kola discovered when a pharmacist named John Pemberton of Atlanta experiment to create a headache reliever. He mixes all sorts of ingredients that creates what we call today with cola. At first cola sold in drug stores only by prescription, and after 8 years on sale free cola drinks as the drink we know today.

4. Anti Sticky pans (Teflon)

A researcher at a well-known chemical companyDuPont named Roy Plunkett was looking for materials that can be used to replace CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons , a material commonly used refrigerant in refrigerators or air conditioned car, commonly referred to as Freon).

He has a theory when he is mixing a compound called TFE with hydrochloric acid , he will get a new refrigerant desired. Therefore he TFE gas collecting in large enough quantities, which he pampatkan and chill in the low temperature in a lab metal cans with hydrochloric acid to react.

The next day as he wanted to observe what was happening, he found that he TFE gas mix inside the can was gone. With a disappointed and angry he opened the metal lid and shook it hard. Of the lid is suddenly falling flakes small, white and smooth. White flakes are then he gave to other researchers to be investigated further Dupont who later turned out to be the manufacture of non-stick pan (Teflon pan).

5. Rubber Retreading

For years, Charles Goodyear strives to find a material made of rubber resistant to hot and cold.

No one ever be able to satisfy his desire to one day he accidentally spilled a mixture of rubber and sulfur (sulfur) into the top of a stove.

Heat on the stove is burning charred mixture of rubber and sulfur, making it hard but still quite supple and flexible.

This material is now called vulcanized rubber and is used as a basic material for making various kinds of useful things like car tires to airplane and shoe soles.

6. Plastic

At the beginning of the 20th century, shellac (or "lacquer", a kind of plastic materials such as hard and rigid) are widely used in the electronics industry to encapsulate electronic devices.

Shellac material is quite expensive because it is made from a kind of insect that lives only in Southeast Asia that must be imported.

For that a Belgian chemist named Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944), in 1907 conducted a study to create alternative materials shellac , because she thought would make a lot of money if you can sell these materials to the electronics industry.

Instead, the research produced a flexible material that can be shaped and fairly resistant to heat. He gave the name of this material "Bakelite" .

Soon he realized Bakelite material has a lot of uses. Plastic materials that we know today, and there is everywhere an ingredient derived from these Bakelite.

7. Radioactivity

In 1896 a French scientist and a Nobel laureate named Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) would have a very big interest in 2 things natural daylight substances ( natural fluorescence ) and a new discovery is very excited at the time that X-rays or X- ray .

He conducted a series of studies to determine whether these natural daylight can produce x-rays after the bronzed in the sun.

One thing that becomes a hindrance when it is winter in progress, which means he does not have enough sunlight to carry out his research by way of drying, when all he had prepared research materials including uranium rocks.

With the intention to keep it for later use after there is enough sunlight, he wrapped all his research material and put it in a closet.

When he opened them again, Becquerel discovered uranium boulders had left his mark on a photographic plate exposed to the sun without having to first.

At that time, this is something that is quite remarkable, then worked as a couple of other scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, she was examined further and discovered what we now call the radioactivity.

8. Synthetic Fabric Dyes (Mauve)

In 1856 a 18-year-old chemist named William Perkin (1838-1907) attempted to find a cure for malaria.

A series of studies and experiments he did, but the only one he made was a viscous liquid that looks impressive.

Having observed this liquid turned out to look pretty good and known later, that he had just found a massive synthetic fabric dye first.

Synthetic dyes which he found much better than natural dyes have been known before, because it has a brighter color and does not fade when washed.

Besides this material it also has other uses, an expert on German bacterium named Paul Ehrlich developed this material to create immunology and chemotherapy.

9. Implanted Cardiac Equipment (Pacemaker)

Pacemakers discovered accidentally by an engineer named Wilson Greatbatch.

At first he was working to make a heart sound recording devices.

But he had inadvertently taken a wrong electronic components out of the box components.

While working, he needed an electronic component called a resistor that should be worth 10.000 ohm resistance (or 10 kilo ohms).

But it turned out he had one take an electronic components of named resitor and has a value of resistance or obstruction by 1 megaohm (1 million ohms).

As a result, the electronic circuit beats he was working for 1.8 milliseconds, and then pause for 1 second, before it starts ticking again.

He noticed, this pattern is similar to the human heart, and this is where the pacemaker was later found.

10. Penicillin (penicillin)

Penicillin is an antibiotic drug most widely used for human consumption. No one thinks that when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin (1881-1955), a biological and pharmacists, are no accident.

One day, he left his equipment in the form of glass vials just to go on vacation.

The next day at his return, he found a number of mold (fungus) that there has been a strange and multiply in a glass cup.

Fungus is the future after further research is called penicillin, an antibiotic drug most widely used by humans to date.

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