ACCIDENTAL INVENTIONS
Tlie automatic system of signalling was discovered accidentally at a spiritualistic seance. The many uses of liorax were discovered through the accidental preservation of a dead horse in the Yellowstone Park, in America.
The system of coupling signals and working them all from one point and with a single action was the thought of a lazy pointsman, who hated to move.
To the upsetting 0 f a tool-chest we are indebted for cast-iron cement.
A glass-cutter let some aquafortis drop on his spectacles, and etching on glass was the result. And lastly, the schoolboy son of Bessemer innocently suggested an improvement in the process of steel manufacture which doubled its efficiency, a missing link which had baffled tin most skilful men in the business.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 1, 2 January 1924, Page 6
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