Cullen Bass
May 2, 2016
Futuring and Innovation
Colorado Technical University
Unit 2- IP1
Instructor-Dr Imad AlSaeed
The two brilliant invention that was made by a mistake was
1). Penicillin which was discovered by Alexander Fleming. What happens was that he left a stack or pile of uncleaned dishing at his workstation. He came back to work from the holidays he sorted through the dirty dishes and found some has bacteria on them. He started to dump the dishes until he came across one of the dishes that had staphylococcus that was was different which he thought was very different that he want to explore. The dish had a lot of bacteria everywhere except for a place where some mold was growing. Around the mold was an area free from bacteria as if the mold has stopped the bacteria from spreading. So Alexander Fleming covered that this substance could be used to kill a wide range of bacteria resulted in the name of penicillin.
Like most thing there is a story behind penicillin. Which is that penicillin was first discovered in London England in the months of September 1928 to be one of the first antibiotic in human history. Which Alexander Fleming place the dish under the microscope where his found the mold that could prevent the growth of staphylococci. I took several weeks to learn about the mold which was call persnickety mold and confirm his finding. The conclusion was great that Alexander Fleming found out that not only did some factor of the substance penicillin mold not only stop the growth of bacteria but more that anything was maybe able to fight against infectious diseases.
2). In 1886 John Pemberton discovered a product called Coca -Cola. During that time, everything John Pemberton made failed as a drug. Also serving in the military doing the civil war John Pemberton was wounded. He was using the drug call morphine where is used plenty of then he got addicted to ease the pain. He began to try other options to rid himself ways to use opium-free alternatives. John even created his own Vin Mariana , which contains Kola nut and damiana which he called Pemberton French wine coca. John obtain the help from another pharmacist name Willis Venable to help him test the and perfect the recipe for the drug. Which they work on by trial and error which included blending syrup with carbonated water by accident when trying to make another glass. So, in the end, John Pemberton decided to sell as drink then a medicine now known as Coca-Cola.
Reference
Inc,2016
Storypick,2016
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