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2. 19 Accidental Inventions That We Can't Live Without Now - AOL

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   5. Play-Doh. Who: Kay Zufall, Brian, Joseph McVicker, Bill Rhodenbaugh When: 1956 . How it was created: The gooey toy kids have been playing with for decades began as a household cleaning product ...

3. Richard Gurley Drew - Wikipedia

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   Richard Gurley Drew (June 22, 1899 – December 14, 1980) was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape.

4. Cellophane - Wikipedia

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   Cellophane is the most popular material for manufacturing cigar packaging; its permeability to water vapor makes cellophane a good product for this application as cigars must be allowed to "breathe" while wrapped and in storage. Cellophane sales have dwindled since the 1960s, due to alternative packaging options.

5. List of discoveries influenced by chance circumstances

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   Royston Roberts says that various discoveries required a degree of genius, but also some lucky element for that genius to act on. [1] Richard Gaughan writes that accidental discoveries result from the convergence of preparation, opportunity, and desire.

6. Did you know these inventions were discovered by accident in ...

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   Here are some of the accidental inventions that originated in the Garden State: Teflon. Branded in 1944, Teflon was initially introduced for military and industrial purposes after World War II ...

7. Accidental Inventions That We Use Every Day - AOL

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