Science: Accidental inventions and how they happened
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident. Mold on one of his petri dishes appeared to be inhibiting bacterial growth - and that's how antibiotics were born. But Michael Edwards of Fredericton's Science East says that's far from the only example of accidental invention.
Science: Accidental inventions and how they happened
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident. Mold on one of his petri dishes appeared to be inhibiting bacterial growth - and that's how antibiotics were born. But Michael Edwards of Fredericton's Science East says that's far from the only example of accidental invention.