chance and inventions

yeah so this are basically what i learnt last week, in school, okay, i know perhaps this may sounds like boring, but before you skip this post, lol, try to take a look at some of the nice findings. okay, i dont know why, but i think that the weeks went by so slow, and since it is slow and it is more boring if i didnt concentrate in school, haha so i focus...and surprisingly when i did, everything seems fun...=)

okay, so on wednesday which is a cognitive day, we were asked to solve about how chance play a role in new discoveries...and we are to come up with our own examples of what are the various things that happened by chance and eventually become an invention.

one of it was the microwave oven. which was first found by two scientists, Sir John Randall and Dr. H. A. Boot in 1940 who invented a device called a magnetron to produce microwaves in their lab at England's Birmingham University.the purpose of this is to cook the Nazis goose. actually the magnetron is a component for radar(radio detecting and ranging) which bounced microwaves off the enemy's war machines to detect their presence.

but to cut the long story short, in 1946, Dr Spencer who was making a tests for magnetron, suddenly have crave for chocolates and as he was taking his chocolates, he realised that the choco had melted in his pocket which he had put the magnetron together with it. and sensing that it is not his body that produced such a strong heat, he began to research it with science, by putting a bag of popcorn near the magnetron...which after sometime, the popcorn popped and scattered everywhere on the floor. and after this findings, slowly microwave oven was invented. more info could be found here ( http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/microwaves/index.html )

another one good invention that was found by chance was cheese. it was actually a milk that was being brought by an Arab nomads in a container made up of the animal's stomach, only to discover the milk had been separated into curd and whey by the rennet from the stomach. and soon enough, people noticed that cheese made in an animal stomach produced more solid and better-textured curds. so with more invention and improved ways of flavouring, the cheese became a suitable environment for a variety of beneficial microbes and molds, which are what give aged cheeses their pronounced and interesting flavour. more info to link this web (http://www.jewishrecipes.org/jewish-foods/cheese/index.html)

yeah so these are some of the invention that happened by chance by people in the past and somehow, i really think that its a good knowledge for all of us to read about it...hehe take it as an interesting facts though...=)

hope you like it.

take care now, bye bye then...got to go and focus on science today...=p