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Originally created by a marine engineer, Richard James, who had a spring fall of his desk and noticed how it continued to tumble along the floor. The slinky was developed further, and brought to toy stores in 1948. Richard's wife Betty created the slinky name, and serves as CEO for the company.

Over 250 million slinkies have been sold worldwide.
-Max Robinson

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The pacemaker was invented by Wilson Greatbatch when he was trying to make a machine that recorded irregular heartbeats, but put the wrong resistor into the machine. The circuit pulsed and was similar to that of the human heart, so he then took this and began working on the first implantable human cardiac pacemaker.
-Andrea Thomas

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Penicillin was invented by Sir Alexander Fleming when he was researching a strain of bacteria. He left for holidays and when he returned he saw that fungus grew on one of the glass dishes he left out. He later noticed that the area surrounding the fungus, the strain of bacteria he was examining was unable to grow. This discovery was a slow-acting publishment until further research was done and doctors realized that it would treat bacterial infections.
- Emily Prevost

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before 1904, The only way to share this dessert was by serving it in dishes. It was not until the summer of 1904, at a fair in St.Louis, Missouri that this all changed.A vender that happened to be selling ice cream at the fair, was runnning out of dishes to serve there ice cream in. luckily, one of the sellers had the idea of rolling waffle plates into cones and scooping the ice cream on top. This is how the ice cream cone was born. - Sarah Bowyer

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Post- it notes are a product of the collaboration between Spencer Silver and Arthur Fry. In 1970 Silver was trying to create a strong adhesive but he ended up creating a weak glue-like substance. 3M, the company he worked for as a researcher, paid little attention to this invention. It was 4 years later when Fry realized just how easily his  choir papers fall off of the stands. When he applied some of Silver's glue, the pages stayed on the stand and they were not damaged. By 1977 Post-it Notes were sold.
-Ashley Aubin

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The slinky was invented by Richard James, who got the idea, in 1940, when he watched a spring fall off his desk. He noticed that it had bounced and rolled across the floor for a while before stopping. After a few prototypes, the slinky became one of the most popular and iconic toys, in 1948. -Kayla Kurnell

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Chips were invented in 1853, when a customer at a diner was getting very picky with his fries. He kept sending them back, saying they were too thick and soggy. The chef was getting tired of this, and burnt some super thin slices in grease, which turned out to actually taste very good.
Brett D.

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The Popsicle was invented in 1905, by accident when 11-year old Frank tried making soda pop by mixing soda water powder and water, but left it outside when the temperature dropped making it freeze, and found a stirring stick in it. He didn't know it then but he had invented the first ever Popsicle. 18 years later, in 1923, he remembered his invention, applied for a patent and started selling "Eppisicles"
Maddy Khull

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In 1945 Percy Lebaron Spencer, was busy working on manufacturing magnetrons.  While standing by a functioning magnetron, Spencer noticed that the chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. After many "childish" experiments the first microwave was born.

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Dom Pierre Pérignon was trying to create a white wine that suited the French court's preference. Since black grapes were easier to grow within the region, he invented a way of pressing white juice from them. Due to the climate in the region of Champagne, the wine needed longer to ferment which caused a build up of bubbles (previously thought of as a sign of poor wine making), that Pérignon was unable to get rid of. The wine ended up being very popular among the french and English  aristocrats.
-Madison Proulx

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Potato chips were originally created in 1853, at a restaurant in Saratoga, New York. A diner 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 fries, the chef decided to fry some wafer-thin slices of potato in grease and then send them out to the customer. After trying a couple, he decided he liked them, and soon everybody in the restaurant wanted a serving. This led to the new recipe appearing on the menu as “Saratoga Chips”, and then later was sold all over the world.
-Jonathon Michaud

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The invention I picked was the accidental invention of the popsicle. In 1905, 11-year-old Frank Epperson tried making soda pop by mixing soda, water and powder. When he left it outside all night, the temperature dropped and the next day he found the frozen mixture with a stick in it. 18 years later he remembered his invention and applied for a patent and started selling “Eppslices”.

-Mackenzee Fox

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before 1904 ice cream was served on dishes. in 1904 there was a world fair and there was a business that was selling ice cream in dishes but they ran into a problem where they were running out of dishes and so the next business beside that guy so he came up with an idea to roll thin waffles into cone shapes and then putting the ice cream inside them.
Kiya Senecal

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The ice cream cone was created after two business owners combined their products at the 1904 World’s Fair in Missouri. An Ice cream both was selling lots of ice cream on that hot day and the owner was running out of dishes to sell the ice cream in. The store next to the ice cream booth was unsuccessfully selling Zalabia, a kind of thin waffle from Persia. The store owner discovered that they could be rolled up into cone shapes and that they would hold ice cream. The ice cream cone has been used since that day forward.

Sarah Tremelling

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Dr Harry Coover was trying to build a clear plastic gun-sight to send off to the army fighting in World War 2. He was working with chemicals that turned out to be highly adhesive when introduced to moisture. Several years later, Coover noticed that his discovery had potential, so he then introduced the first bottle of superglue into the world. When the war in Vietnam broke out, the field medics used superglue to seal off their wounded soldiers quickly and efficiently. So what started out with Coover trying to make a gun more effective at killing people, ended up saving countless lives and limbs. Superglue is still used all over the world today, with all sorts of jobs that things like tape simply can't handle.