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16 accidental inventions that changed the world
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Some inventors work their entire lives to develop a radical solution to the world's problems.
Other stumble upon a brilliant innovation purely by luck.
We should all be grateful that the universe gifted us with these world-changing, accidental inventions.
Alyson Kreuger and Drake Baer contributed additional research to this article.
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Inventor: Joseph McVicker, head of a Kutol Products Company, a soap manufacturer in Cincinnati, Ohio
What he was trying to make: In the early 1950s, Kutol created a doughy clay to remove soot in coal-burning homes.
But as the Christian Science Monitor reports, people soon switched from coal to gas to warm their homes, an