7 ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS Made by Dorin Burcovschi PAPER STICKERS • In 1968, Spencer Silver was trying to invent a strong adhesive for scotch tape, but came across a material that had adhesive properties, but, if desired, could be easily torn off without leaving marks. After many unsuccessful attempts to find a use for this glue, Silver's colleague Art Fry realized that the glue could be used for paper notes stickers. VELCRO • The VELCRO was invented by a man named George de Mestral in the 1940's while hunting in the Jura mountains in Switzerland. Mr. de Mestral, a Swiss engineer, realized that the tiny hooks of the cockle-burs were stuck on his pants and in his dog's fur and wondered how they attached themselves. Under the scrutiny of the microscope, he observed the hooks of the plant stuck in the fabric of his pants LAMINATED GLASS • Laminated glass was invented in 1903 by the French chemist Édouard Bénédictus inspired by a laboratory accident: a glass flask had become coated with the plastic cellulose nitrate, and when dropped it shattered but did not break into pieces. WAFFLE CONES • Up until 1904, ice cream was served in a bowl and that there was too much demand for it, the plates quickly ran out. At this time, there was no trade at all in the neighboring kiosk with Persian waffles, so the sellers decided to join forces. They began to roll the waffles and put ice cream in them. KYIV CAKE • The workers simply forgot to put the beaten egg white in the refrigerator .The next morning, the head of the shop, decided to make a cake from the ingredients that he had. In the end, a crispy cake came out BUBBLE WRAP • The material was developed in 1957 by Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes who wanted to market it as a kind of wallpaper. When this proved to be a failure, the men then sold bubble wrap to IBM. The packaging material allowed the company's computers to be transported safely, and bubble wrap quickly became the new standard. SMART DUST • Smart Dust is a nanotechnology invention involving small, inconspicuous wireless devices that work as a single system. Smart dust came about thanks to UCLA graduate student Jamie Link, who studied the silicon chip. The chip exploded, and Jamie had the idea that the little pieces could also function separately as a single system. Today, this technology is being used to detect everything in medicine SPACEX STARLINK PURSUES 'COMPLETE COVERAGE' WITH POLAR ORBIT LAUNCH SpaceX has successfully completed the Starlink project, named "full coverage of the Earth". On July 10, around 10 p.m., a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the California Space Force base. This was SpaceX's 29th launch of 2022 and Starlink's 50th launch, having first put a batch of 60 Internet satellites into orbit on May 23, 2019. After completion Elon Musk wrote on Twitter "These launches will enable full coverage of the Earth
