Monday 5 November 2012

ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS

Find information about accidental inventions, choose 1 and  write a short paragraph about it using new grammatical structures :)


28 comments:

  1. X-ray images.
    In 1800s scientists started to discover radiation, radio waves and other invisible forces of our nature. When Röntgen ran electricity through the gas, the tube would glow. He knew that it is more than just light. It shot out invisible rays through paper. This phenomenon has called "X-rays" and was discovered by german physicist Wilhelm Röntgen.

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  2. In 1853 George Crum, a chef in New York, accidentally invented potato chips when an annoying patron kept sending his french fried potatoes back to the kitchen because they were soggy. In an attempt to teach the customer a lesson, Crum sliced them extra thin, fried them to a crisp and drowned them in salt. To his surprise, however, the complaining customer actually like them. Both customer and George Crum were satisfied after all. This is a short story how the potato chips were born.

    Deniss Karpov

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  3. Telephone invention.
    Telephone invention can`t name as one person activity result. The first model of phone was patented by Alexander Bell in 1876 year. Next inventors put own part of work for further development such invention as telephone and there was successfully. Either of civilized people use telephone daily and neither can`t imagine own life without this invention. Therefore, I believe that telephone is one of the most important things in our life.
    Jekaterina Kozlovskaja

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  4. There are many stories of accidentally invented food: the potato chip was born when cook George Crum (yes, really his name!) tried to silence a persnickety customer who kept sending french fries back to the kitchen for being soggy; Popsicles were invented when Frank Epperson left a drink outside in the cold overnight; and ice cream cones were invented at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.

    But no food-vention has had as much success as Coke.

    Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton was trying to make a cure for headaches. He mixed together a bunch of ingredients -- and don't ask, because we don't know; The recipe is still a closely guarded secret. It only took eight years of being sold in a drug store before the drink was popular enough to be sold in bottles.
    Karina Untilova

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  5. Popsicles.

    It was 1905 and soda pop had just become the most popular drink on the market. 11 year old Frank Epperson decided he wanted to try saving some money by making his own at home. Using a combination of powder and water he got pretty close but then absentmindedly left mix out on the porch all night. Temperatures dropping out severely and when he came out in the morning he found his mixture frozen with the stirring stick still in it.

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  6. There are a lot of accidental inventions and I’m going to tell about superglue. It was discovered in 1942 by Dr Harry Coover. He was trying to find out how to make robber’s gun sights. Coover worked with different chemicals and then he realized, that if it contact with moisture, various things and materials bond together. Although he didn’t realize how to get gun sights, superglue was born. Nowdays it helps us in lot of ways. Also, it was used for treating injured soldiers.
    Alice T.

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  7. Champagne

    While many know that Dom Pierre Pérignon is credited for the invention of champagne, it was not the 17th century Benedictine monk’s intention to make a wine with bubbles in it – in fact, he had spent years trying to prevent just that, as bubbly wine was considered a sure sign of poor winemaking.

    Pérignon’s original wish was to cater for the French court’s preference for white wine. Since black grapes were easier to grow in the Champagne region, he invented a way of pressing white juice from them. But since Champagne’s climate was relatively cold, the wine had to be fermented over two seasons, spending the second year in the bottle. This produced a wine loaded with bubbles of carbon dioxide, which Pérignon tried but failed to eradicate. Happily, the new winewas a big hit with the aristocratic crowds in both the French and English courts.

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  8. There are many stories of accidentally invented food, but no one food-invention has had as much success as Coke. Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton was trying to make a cure for headaches. He mixed together a bunch of ingredients that anybody don't know. The recipe is still a secret. It only took eight years of being sold in a drug store before the drink was popular enough to be sold in bottles.

    Nikita Scherbakov

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  9. Ice Cream Cone

    Before 1904, ice cream was served on plate either vase. It wasn’t until the World’s Fair of that year, held in St Louis, Missouri,
    that two seemingly unrelated both of foodstuffs became inexorably linked.
    At this particularly 1904 World's Fair, there was a stall selling ice cream was doing such good business that they were quickly running out of dishes. The neighboring stall sell neither of they ice cream, selling Zalabia a kind of wafer thin waffle from Persia and the stall owner came up with the idea of rolling them into cone shapes and popping the ice cream on top. Thus the ice cream cone was born.

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  10. Superglue
    Superglue came into being in 1942 when Dr Harry Coover was trying to isolate a clear plastic. When he was testing the heat resistance of cyanoacrylates, recognizing that the adhesives required neither heat nor pressure to form a strong bond.
    It was later used for treating injured soldiers in Vietnam – the adhesive could be sprayed on open wounds, stemming bleeding and allowing easier transportation of soldiers.Superglue saved a lot of lives.
    We use the superglue to this day. It is a useful thing when we need to glue something.

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  11. There are a lot of accidental inventions in the world but I am going to tell about popsicle.
    There was a 11-year old boy, Frank Epperson, who tried to make soda pop. He left the soda out on his porch all night. Then temperature dropped and Frank found his soda pop had frozen with the stirring stick in it.
    All in all, he invented the first popsicle.
    In 1923 Frank applied for a patent and started selling "Eppsicle" ice pops in different fruit flavors.

    Anastassia Shavrina

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  12. Tea bags

    There are a lot of accidental inventions, which were made by chance by different people. I am going to tell a little story about history of tea bags. Nowadays, tea bags are very popular because of their ease of handling. But actually, the first tea bags were made by the tea and coffee shop merchant Thomas Sullivan from New York at 1904 and the first tea bags were hand-sewn silk bags. The point of silk bags was preservation of tea,but people mistakenly put them directly on the boiling water.They were very happy of result and soon selling of tea and coffee bags has skyrocketed.In conclusion, tea bags are still popular. Of course, now they are made of paper, but still it's the most comfortable way to brew tea.

    Anastasia Borzenkova

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  13. There are many stories of accidentally invented food,but no food-vention has had as much success as Coke.There was a pharmacist John Pemberton was trying to make a cure for headaches. He mixed together a bunch of ingredients,unfortunately,the recipe is still a closely guarded secret. It only took eight years of being sold in a drug store before the drink was popular enough to be sold in bottles. Nowdays, it takes a lot to make every single bottle of Coke taste the same.
    Maria Podõmahhina

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  14. Cornflakes.
    In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his brother Will, Brothers looked for useful products to feed patients with vegetarian food. Will accidentally left boiled wheat out, it went stale. Thereafter they toasted the flakes, which were a big hit with patients, and brothers patented them under the name Granose. Thereon when they patented flakes Will not joined his brother, because he refused to add sugar to the recipe.
    Kristina Morozova

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  15. Potato chips

    In 1853, in a restaurant in Saratoga, New York, a particularly fussy diner (railway magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt) repeatedly refused to eat the fries he had been served with his meal, complaining that they were too thick and too soggy. After he had sent back several plates of increasingly thinly-cut fries, the chef George Crum decided to get his own back by frying wafer-thin slices of potato in grease and sending them out.Vanderbilt initially protested that the chef’s latest efforts were too thin to be picked up with a fork, but upon trying a few, the chips were an instant hit, and soon everybody in the restaurant wanted a serving. This led to the new recipe appearing on the menu as “Saratoga Chips” before later being sold all over the world.

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  16. I wanna tell you about an invention, it's hookah.
    The origins of the hookah came from the north western provinces of India. It’s designed in the Persian Empire and there are still handcrafted with each one being cut from a piece of wood. They were simple, primitive, and rugged in design and made from a coconut shell base and tube. At first, the hookah was designed to smoke opium or hashish. Women and after other people used them in the home for entertaining.

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  17. The Popsicle
    There are a lot of accidental inventions and this is my information about accidental invention. For me, It's amazing! In 1905, 11-year old Frank Epperson tried making soda pop. Accidentally, he left the soda out on his porch all night. Temperatures dropped so low that the next day, young Epperson found his soda pop had frozen with the stirring stick in it! He didn't know it then, but he had accidentally concocted the very first popsicle! In my opinion, all of accidental inventions are important for us.

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  18. I chose an interesting accidental invention that we use almost every day. We all love to eat something special but nowadays we don't think, that what we eat usually, was special some time ago. I mean the chewing gum. It was made by an inventor Thomas Adams. There was some chicle, a natural latex and he tried to do toys and rain boots from it. However his attemts failed. Because of being upset he put a piece of chicle in his mouth and he liked this feeling of chewing. After that, he added flavours to it and that's how the chewing gum was born.

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  19. This accidental invention was created by the chef George Crum, who was working in a restaurant in Saratoga, New York, in 1853. The main cause of this type of invention was an ordinary refuce of customer, whose name is Corneliu Vanderbilt. Corneliy Vanderbilt refused to eat fries, which were too thick and too soggy. The chef didn’t lose courage and found solution. The chef fryed slices of patoto and sent them out. Firstly, the customer complained, that slices were too thin to be picked up, but trying a little bit, he was enjoied by chef’s work. As a result, in reustarant appeared a new snack, which received name“ Saratoga Chips“. Later, food factories started to sell chips all over the world.
    Peter Zelyony

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  20. According to Chinese traditions, tea was invented by a cultural hero Shennong, patron of Agriculture and Medicine, one of the “Three Emperors”, who invented all crafts and arts.
    According to the legend, emperor Shennong was in a search of herbs, with a kettle where he boiled water for healing decoctions. In 2373 ВС some leafs from a tea tree got in the boiling kettle. The decoction seemed to be tasty and gave cheerfulness to the emperor. Since then Shennong had never drunk any other drinks again.
    Григорий Сахаров

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  21. Ice Cream Cones



    Either ice cream stall had served ice cream on dishes for years. It was so until the 1904 World’s Fair when the ice cream cone was born. An ice cream stall at the fair was doing so well that they were quickly running out of plates while the neighboring persian waffle stall was hardly selling anything. Then there were two stall owners who both had the idea of rolling up the waffles, plopping the ice cream on top and voila…the ice cream cone was born. In our days neither stall serves an ice cream on dishes.
    Валентина Апполонова

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  22. There are a lot of accidental inventions, but I'm going to tell you about one of the most dangerous of all. Dynamite is an explosive material based on nitroglycerin and gunpowder or wood pulp.Dynamite was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, actually he discovered a method of containing the substance, and patented in 1867. Dynamite is mainly used in the mining and demolition industries.
    Max Sab

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  23. In the world there are many different inventions, but I'd like to tell about Microwave.I think that Microwave one of the best inventions of the world.Microwave radiations were discovered by Percy L. Spencer in 1945. He was walking past a radiation tube and noticed that the chocolate bar in is pocket melted. Then he placed a small bowl of popcorn in front of the tube and the corn started popping. This discovery of microwave radiation led to the invention of microwave oven.
    Anna Shumilina

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