Sentence examples for was stumbled upon from inspiring English sources

The firm used a specially tweaked version of Lexan, a polycarbonate plastic that was stumbled upon in 1953 by Daniel Fox, a chemist who worked for GE.

The "biggest thing ever to be discovered in Irish astronomy" was stumbled upon by Dave Grennan during an evening spent sitting in his garden shed.

The manuscript was stumbled upon in a storage unit in Texas and returned to the Buck family in December in exchange for a small fee, said Jane Friedman, the chief executive of Open Road Integrated Media, the publisher.

If that is not incredible enough, the corporation appears ready to forgive her for missing the story, which she mused over for three weeks before it was stumbled upon by Gilligan, Radio 4's conspiracy correspondent.

This museum-quality velocipede of American manufacture was stumbled upon by Sir Chauncey Peakes, K.B.E., as he was studying small-village bicycle racks in search of clues to the indigenous cultures left unlocked.

It is true that the number 210 was stumbled upon by accident and may work without multiplying by 12pi.

The best of it, perhaps, was stumbling upon the labyrinth under Buda Castle, a series of natural caves below the city with curiosities such as a horse carved out of the stone and a fountain that spouts red wine.

Pileggi later joked that during the filming of his scenes all he could think about was stumbling upon a snake.

(That said, it could be argued that his biggest musical achievement was stumbling upon and fostering Notorious B.I.G., which was decades ago).

And these options were stumbled upon by USA Track and Field about a day and a half ago.

That's the kind of damning tidbit that could be stumbled upon and misinterpreted by some future background-checker — a potential employer, for instance, or a vetting body for Nobel Prize nominees.