Author: Archit Tripathi / Source: did you know?
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but I’d put forth that so are happy accidents. It’s kind of nuts how many things we take for granted today that were originally developed by someone trying to do something totally different from what their groundbreaking inventions actually got used for.
And that’s good news for us!
1. Pacemakers
Pacemakers have been around for a while, but they used to be pretty clunky until a gentleman named Wilson Greatbatch, picked up the wrong resistor one day while working on an audio recording device. This resulted in the device giving off a rhythmic pulse which he realized could be used as an implantable pacemaker!
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