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Effet serendip en sciences, Ouvrages pour la jeunesse, Serendipity in science, Decouvertes scientifiques, Discoveries in science, Juvenile literaturePeople
Harry Coover, Pythagoras, Arhimedes, Galileo Galilei, William Lee, Hans Lippershey, James Hargreaves, Alois Senefelder, Friedrich Kekulé, Robert Koch, James Schlatter, Frank Epperson, Sylvan N. Goldman, Richard James, George de Mestral, Arthur Fry, Phil McCrory, Clarence A. Crane, Joseph Priestly, Bertold Schwartz, Pieter van Muschenbroeck, Charles Goodyear, Samuel Cooley, Horace Wells, Alfred Nobel, John Wesley Hyatt, Edouard Benedictus, James Christy, Karl Jansky, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Elias Howe Jr., Luigi Galvani, Signora Galvani, René Laennec, Mary Anning, William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin, John McIntosh, David Fife, Samuel Morse, Charles Jackson, Ignaz Semmelweis, Phineas Gage, Clarence Birdseye, Donald Johanson, George Eastman, Christian Nelson, David Parkinson, Masaru Ibuka, Henry Bessemer, Elihu Thomson, Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner, Thomas L. Willson, Wilhelm Roentgen, Henri Becquerelm, Alexander Fleming, Julian Hill, Louis Daguerre, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson, John Kellogg, Will Kellogg, William Henry Perkin, Arthur Scott, Roy Plunkett, Lonnie Johnson, Johnny Carson, Michael Zasloff, George Crum, James Wright, Norman Larson, Levi Strauss, Charles Menches, Frederick A. BruckmanShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Accidental Discoveries: From Laughing Gas to Dynamite
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Accidental Discoveries: From Laughing Gas to Dynamite
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First Sentence
"What triggers the brainstorm that leads to a scientific discovery?"
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.
Page 1
CHAPTER 1.
NEW PERSPECTIVES
Page 4
A Blacksmith's Pounding
Page 6
An Overfilled Bath
Page 8
The Swinging Chandelier
Page 11
Noisy Needles
Page 14
Close Enough to Touch
Page 15
Straight Up in the Air
Page 17
A Hurried List
Page 18
Dancing Snakes
Page 20
A Moldy Potato
Page 22
Accidentally Frozen
Page 24
Folding Chairs on Wheels
Page 26
CHAPTER 2.
FORTUNATE FUMBLES
Page 32
An Explosive Mix
Page 34
A Jar of Electricity
Page 36
Charred Rubber
Page 38
Just One Whiff
Page 41
Spilled Liquid
Page 43
Unbreakable Glass
Page 45
An Unexplained Bump
Page 46
CHAPTER 3.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
Page 52
Twitching Legs
Page 54
Children's Game, Doctor's Tool
Page 56
Hole in the Stomach
Page 58
Fruit from a Single Tree
Page 61
Seeds in the Mail
Page 63
Encounter in Mid-Ocean
Page 65
Mysterious Deaths
Page 69
Personality Switch
Page 71
Fresh Frozen
Page 74
A Flood of Bones
Page 76
CHAPTER 4.
EXPERIMENTAL TWISTS
Page 82
Sudden Brightness
Page 84
A Blast of Cold Air
Page 87
Flash of Green
Page 91
A Weakened Strain of Bacteria
Page 93
Surprising Bubbles
Page 96
Glow in the Dark
Page 99
Mysterious Images
Page 102
Clear Rings, Shrinking Patches
Page 104
Stretchy Strands
Page 106
CHAPTER 5.
SURPRISE ENDINGS
Page 110
A Poisonous Drink
Page 112
Sticky Mess, Valuable Solution
Page 114
Too Thick and Wrinkled
Page 116
Unexpected Splash
Page 118
The Fully Recovered Frog
Page 121
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Page 128
INDEX.
Page 131
Edition Notes
Previously published under title: The serendipity effect.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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