SS Vishak

We have seen a case when X attempts to create A but ends up with B and Y sees a good fortune can be made out of this and promotes it.  That is, in  Accidental Succeses #1 Let us see one more such case (this has disputes of its invention but let us see someone who did indeed invent independently and is recognized by the product's marketers)... THE WRIGHT WHO DID NOT FLY James Wright was a Scottish-born who worked as a researcher and chemical engineer in a now-127-year-old company formed by the Wizard of Menlo park, Thomas Alva Edison, the General Electric. MILITARY FUNDING, HONEY. During the time of World War II, the United States could not obtain natural rubber from their Asian suppliers. Cheap rubber substitute was a necessity for their military vehicles. The General Electric company was then under a contract to produce synthetic inexpensive rubber substitute for the military.  Wright was working with silicone oil , in an attempt to create a silicon-based...

I always had a flair for story of scientists...I always wondered why very few Indian scientists were actually known widely. One of the few Indian scientists' names that crawl into our textbooks is Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose.The. Indian. Botanist. Sure, he found out evidence for life in plants using a crescograph, but actually, he MADE the crescograph. He was basically , a physicist... BORN A KING IN MYEMENSINGH Jagadish Chandra Bose was born on 30 November, 1858 at Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh. He was raised in a home committed to Indian values and culture. He got his elementary education from a vernacular school, because his father believed that Bose should learn his own mother tongue, Bengali, before studying a foreign language like English. Bose attended Cambridge after studying physics at Calcutta University. He returned to India in 1884 after completing a B.Sc. degree from Cambridge University. INDIA'S OWN POLYMATH  Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath ...

At times your life does not go planned. At all. Happens. But a lot of achievements have actually stemmed out of such places by pure play of probabilities or by an observant and opportunistic mind looking at it from a different angle. Sometimes you get the goal achieved. Sometimes, you get a whole lot better... There have been many such instances when science has advanced, empires have been forged and fortunes have been made due to such glorious misadventures.  One such accident led to... POST-IT NOTES Spencer Silver obtained a PhD in organic chemistry and joined a company-one which currently holds over 118,000 patents- 3M. As a Senior Chemist. Silver attempted to create a super strong adhesive, a superglue. But he ended up creating a low-tack adhesive. It was a pressure sensitive adhesive that could only hold papers together and weak enough to allow the papers be taken apart easily. But it was reusable. He patented it. He gave seminars to promote it within 3M a...

Ahoy, Mateys! Knowledge is a weapon and be formidably armed.  This your ammo shop and I am your dealer. I would love to share the information which inspired and/or surprised me.  Visit and get loaded, fellas! And give me your valuable feedback. Until then, SSV