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[title] => Unintended Inventions II
[time] => 2015-08-09 05:14:07
[hometext] => The art of never giving upsmanship
[bodytext] => The tale below is penned in hopes that you may come to wonder; How much you value genius; and under rate the blunder! Now I’m not saying wrong is right; but, were it defended; Many gifts you now enjoy were wholly unintended! Goofs have led to glory, so say the truths below; Invention’s well disguised at times; and here is how we know! Percy worked at Raytheon; On vacuum tubes called magnetrons; One day he stood too near and felt; The chocolates in his pocket melt! To cook with sound seemed very strange; Until he built his “ Radar-range”. In 1950 Percy gave, to all of us, the microwave! One of Canon’s engineers was soldering and then; He accidently set his hot gun on his ball point pen! When the pen got good and hot; The ink ejected like a shot! The principal made him inventor; Of the worlds first ink-jet printer! Trying to make synthetic rubber, James spilled silicone; On a mound of boric acid, which began to foam. It stuck to dirt and pet hair; it bounced and changed its shape! (It even kept the tools from floating on Apollo 8!) We all thought James was nutty, when he sold it as a toy; He named it Silly Putty, and retired a wealthy boy! Spencer worked on making glue; For 3-M, but it wouldn’t do. It wouldn’t stick, yet his friend took; scraps home to mark his church choir’s books! Now Spencer and his friend can gloat— their non-stick glue made Post-it Notes! Richard James was working on a spring for use on ships; To stabilize equipment so it wouldn’t shift or slip. The spring fell down; walked round and round— His wife gave it a name; 200 million Slinkys gave Mr. James his fame! They all needed permission to make mistakes and fall; If we could live a thousand years, we'll never know it all! Some who erred too badly and too late to make amends; Found time would shed a gentler light upon their story’s end. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred changed the world when he invented dynamite! It’s peacetime use soon went to war; killed thousands overnight. He held himself responsible for all the young mens graves; And yet most don't remember the deadly gift he gave. Instead we know his legacy, bequeathed in his last will: Promoting peace, the Nobel Prize, reminds us of him still. [comments] => 5 [counter] => 225 [topic] => 19 [informant] => softerware [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => InspirationalPoems )
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