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- The Microwave Oven. Percy LeBaron Spencer was working on magnetrons—high-powered vacuum tubes that generate short radio waves called microwaves—when he accidentally discovered microwave cooking.
- Post-It Notes. As the Post-it website tells it, 3M scientist Dr. Spencer Silver was doing research on strong adhesives when he came across quite the opposite: one that "stuck lightly to surfaces but didn't bond tightly to them."
- The First Artificial Sweetener. Saccharin, the first artificial sweetener, was discovered in 1878 by Constantin Fahlberg. The Russian chemist was working in the lab of chemistry professor Ira Remsen when he accidentally tasted some of the chemicals he was working with and realized how sweet they were.
- Penicillin. Discovered in 1928, penicillin was one of the world's first antibiotics, but the man who discovered it—Dr. Alexander Fleming—never actually meant to "revolutionize all medicine," as he later described it.
- The microwave. In 1946 Percy Spencer, an engineer for the Raytheon Corporation, was working on a radar-related project. While testing a new vacuum tube, he discovered that a chocolate bar he had in his pocket melted more quickly than he would have expected.
- Quinine. Quinine is an anti-malarial compound that originally comes from tree bark. Now we usually find it in tonic water, though it's still used in drugs that treat malaria as well.
- X-rays. In 1895, a German physicist named Wilhelm Roentgen was working with a cathode ray tube. Despite the fact that the tube was covered, he saw that a nearby fluorescent screen would glow when the tube was on and the room was dark.
- Radioactivity. In 1896, intrigued by the discovery of X-rays, Henri Becquerel decided to investigate the connection between them and phosphorescence, a natural property of certain substances that makes them give off light.
May 24, 2022 · The unintended consequences of innovations have been accelerated by new technology, but they are not a 21st-century problem. Microwaves are built for convenience, but their inventor didn’t...
Inventions can result from a huge variety of human endeavors—including scientific, industrial, military, political, or artisanal ones. Some are consequences of fundamental research (plus later development), such as the first atomic bomb, which grew out of physics research into splitting atomic nuclei.
- Introduction. When the successful cloning of a lamb called Dolly was announced in February of this year by Scottish researchers, it set off a spate of anxious questions.
- Some Definitions. It is important here to distinguish between unanticipated and undesired consequences. The former are consequences which are not foreseen and dealt with in advance of their appearance.
- A Broader Definition of Technology. Although we focus here on the term 'technology' as it is usually taken, it is worth pointing out that human beings do much that has unanticipated consequences, in all areas of life, certainly including, for example: medicine, business, law, politics, religion, education, and many more.
- Why Do We Have Unintended Consequences? Dietrich Dorner has recently analyzed systems in a way that can help us see why they can be so difficult to understand, and hence why consequences are unanticipated.
Sep 15, 2020 · It is convenient for innovators to label negative consequences as ‘unintended’, but they may be designed into the system – features, not bugs – or they may be deliberately unanticipated to avoid accountability (Stilgoe Citation 2020).
Initial results were so weak that the trial was going to be discontinued. According to Dr Nick Terret, a lead chemist on the trial team, a report back on the last-ditch attempt read:...
