Show Accidents That Have I Made Big Industries A piece of ot cheese tossed by one I workman at another during the hour missed Its mark and dropped Into the plating bath used In Inthe Inthe the the production of ot copper disks from I which wax phonograph records were I stamped Later the disks from that bath were found to be far tar superior to the others and an Investigation revealed re re- I fl that the casein In the cheese had haft done the trick This disclosed a a. possible Improvement worth thousands of dollars to the manufacturer Telephone Telephone Telephone Tele Tele- phone engineers discovered that an on alloy of ot nickel and Iron when produced produced pro pro- In the form torm of a narrow ribbon and ond wound around the tIe copper core of ot ofa ota I a submarine cable would Increase the tha speed of the cable six times The only j II I I trouble was that no one seemed able I 1 Ito to find a 0 flux flax that would weld the ends of the ribbon Into a solid piece One One J ot day ay n workman Jokingly said Lets j I try salt BaIt Picking up the shaker from his till luncheon pall he started to I sprinkle the salt satt over the flux when j I Ithe the he the cover coer fell off orr the shaker and the I nIt poured over o the weld This start stort ft ed el a n chemical action that united the 1 edges i and the problem WB was solved A scientist dentist In France while experimenting experiment experiment- I lag ing In In his laboratory inadvertently I opened th the wrong valve Before he OU rectify his mastake several drops of moisture settled In a n glass tube that was DS part art of ot the apparatus His elation elation ela ela- tion knew no bounds for tor here at last rii el the end of ot the long search earch for tor fort t liquid oxygen Again an accident occident created created created cre cre- an aD Industry and gave e us an explosive i sire she far tar safer sater and mightier than dyna h mite lloyd Iod Floyd W. W Parsons In the Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day Evening Post t |