Show accidents that have flace made big Indu industries A piece of cheese tossed by one workman tit at another during the lunch luncheon eos hour missed its mark and dropped into the plating lath bath used in the production of copper disks from which wax phonograph records were stamped later the disks from froin that bath were found to be far superior sa perlor to tile the others and an investigation revealed that the casein in the cheese had done the trick this disclosed a possible improvement worth thousands of dollars to tile the manufacturer telephone engineers discovered red that an alloy of nickel and iron when produced in the form of a narrow ribbon and wound around the copper core of a submarine cable would increase the speed of the cable six times the only trouble was wa that no one seemed able abl to find afflux a flux that would weld the ends of nt the ribbon into a solid piece one day a workman jokingly said lets leta try salt picking up the shaker from his luncheon pull pail he started to sprinkle the salt over the flux when the cover fell off the shaker and the salt poured over the weld this start ed d a c chemical heral cAl action that united the edges and the problem was solved A scientist I 1 in n france while experimenting in his laboratory inadvertently opened the wrong valve before he ha could rectify his mastake several drapl of moisture settled in ablass a glass tube that was part of the apparatus his elation knew no bounds for here ut at lost last was the end of tile the long search for liquid 0 eygen again fin an accident created an industry and gave us an explosive tar for safer and ml mightier bitler than dynamite dynas floyd IV parson Ear sons s in the satur day Ev evening erting post |