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Accidents May Happen: Fifty Inventions Discovered By Mistake
Author: Jones, Charlotte Foltz; Illustrator O'Brien, John
Paperback 86 pages Published: November 1998 Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
ISBN: 0385322402
From Wheaties to telephones, microwave ovens to yo-yos, here are inspiring and often funny stories of 50 mistakes and misunderstandings that helped bring about life as we know it. With hilarious cartoons and wacky facts, this fascinating compendium is full of surprises.Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being.

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