Innovations are uncertain, sometimes the inventions turn out be entirely different item than intended and sometimes their use is in contrast with what the maker was thinking at the time of producing it.
Here are a few such inventions,
The inventor of the parachute died testing it
French tailor Franz Richelt had an admirable goal when he began designing cloth “flying suits” in the early 20th century. He wanted to provide a suit for pilots that would allow them to survive a fall should they be forced to leave their aircraft. Several tests of the suit had been successful using dummies, but he insisted he try out a jump from the Eiffel Tower himself. The parachute failed to deploy and Reichelt died after hitting the ground at the base of the tower.
A dentist invented cotton candy
Some historians date spun sugar, or “fairy floss,” to 19th century Europe. But the machine-spun, nearly 100 percent sugar variety that is an amusement park staple was invented by none other than New Orleans dentist Joseph Lascaux in 1921. Perhaps a bid for more patients?
Dynamite was meant for peaceful purposes
In 1867, Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel introduced his shelf-stable mixture of nitroglycerin, powdered rock, and sodium carbonate as an alternative to the volatile nitroglycerin-only explosives meant for blasting rock. Later, Nobel commented that he hoped that his explosive would help stop war, but he didn’t live long enough to see the damage it caused in World War I.
The microchip was meant for war-time purposes
After World War II, the U.S. military provided funding to several groups to develop a tiny device to help make missile targeting more accurate. Without this startup money, companies such as Texas Instruments and Intel may not have developed the microchip, the foundation of nearly all modern electronic devices, as quickly as they did.
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