MY TOP 4 MISTAKES/ACCIDENT THAT HAVE IMPACTED THE WORLD POSITIVELY
Mistake according to the dictionary ia an error in action, calculation, opinion, or misconception. There are some mistakes that are bad and unrectifiable and there are also mistakes made over the years that have shaped the world as we know it.
Have you ever made a mistake you are grateful for afterwards?
steemeans have been doing top 10 of everything so I decided to point out how some minor and major mistakes have helped shaped the world.
As a microbiologist is rather fair I start from my own domain
PENICILLIN
The world’s first true antibiotic was discovered by accident by Alexander Flemingwho went on vacation leaving the Petri dishes of staphylococcus; a bacterial that causes boils and sore throat in the year 1940 that he was working on in his workshop.
On returning from his long holiday, Fleming discovers something amazing while sorting through the Petri dishes in his workshop. Fleming found mold growing on the dishes and the "mold juice" was capable of killing a wide range of harmful bacteria, such as streptococcus, meningococcus and diphtheria bacillus.
Like every boss out there Fleming, made his assistants, Stuart Craddock and Frederick Ridley go through difficult task of isolating pure penicillin from the mold juice.
nice one Sir Alexander Fleming
MICROWAVE OVEN
the microwave energy idea as a way of cooking food was accidentally discovered by Percy LeBaron Spencer who worked as an employee of Raytheon Company when he found that radar waves had melted a candy bar in his pocket.
Experiments showed that microwave has the ability to raise the internal temperature of many foods far more than a conventional oven can.
PACEMAKER
The above named equipment of high repute sewn into the chest of loved ones to correct their heart defect was invented by an absent-minded professor called engineer Wilson Greatbatch. He reached into a box to collect a resistor while working on a circuit to help record fast heart beat but instead he pulled out a megaohm resistor of 10,000-ohmand and he was not aware of this.
The circuit when tested pulsed for 1.8mil seconds and then stopped for 1 seconds. Then it repeated. This a perfect heart beat.
Nice one sir Wilson
Mauve
William Perkin, an 18-year-old chemist wanted to cure malaria; instead his mistake revolutionalised the fashion world forever. In 1856, Perkin while trying to make an artificial quinine a drug used for the treatment of malaria, made a thick murky mess which turned out to be the first-ever synthetic dye and it was far better than any natural dyes
But the story is not over yet. German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich who was a fan of used Perkin's work, used his dyes to pioneer immunology and chemotherapy.