Sentence examples for accidental invention from inspiring English sources

The Super Ball was an accidental invention.

Besides Ganson's accidental invention of Toobers and Zots, they have profited greatly from another bit of chance.

That's 334 in cat years — long enough for one man's accidental invention to become a $2 billion industry.

IT wasn't an accidental invention, exactly, but it was certainly one that followed an unexpected trajectory to glory.

Though he is said to have tasted it and shown it to his friends, he did little else with his accidental "invention" for a number of years.

But Frank Winter, working with colleagues from the Smithsonian Institution and Sydney's Powerhouse Museum, claims that the rocket was almost certainly an accidental invention.

But from their studies, Myhrvold and others have come to realize that truly "accidental" inventions are rare and are usually exaggerated in hindsight-sometimes to justify why researchers deviated from what they were supposed to be doing.

The Chinese may well have invented everything except the forward pass, but some of their most important inventions were accidental.

Indeed, for most of human history invention has largely been either accidental or directly related to military demands.

Nonetheless, The Accidental has an infectious sense of fun and invention.

However, a closer examination of the earliest history of the basic rocket, a gunpowder-propelled device developed in China around 900 years ago, suggests that it originated as an accidental discovery rather than as a deliberately planned invention.