An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
Did you know... Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine
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Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled the word "googol," which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. The word was chosen to reflect the company's goal of organizing the massive amount of information that is available on the Internet.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/09/05/2008-09-05_20_fun_facts_about_googles_earliest_days.html#ixzz0WNN71fQX
Velcro (TM), one of the world's most useful fasteners, is based on the engineering of cockleburs. In the early 1950's, George deMestral went for a walk in the countryside of Switzerland after returning home, he noticed that his jacket was covered with cockleburs. As he began picking them off, he wondered what made them stick. Curiosity led him to find the cockleburs are covered with hooks, and the hooks became embedded in the loops of fabric on his clothes. Today cocklebur-type hooks and woven loops secure everything from children's shoes to microphones in space shuttles.
