Published on: March 3, 2015Teflon – Roy Plunkett The next time you make a frustration-free omelette, thank chemist Roy Plunkett, whose experienced immense frustration while inadvertently inventing Teflon in 1938. Plunkett had hoped to create a new variety of chlorofluorocarbons (better known as universally-despised CFCs), when he came back to check on his experiment in […]
Published on: April 9, 2015Colorful Mess If you ever want to stand out at night and ensure no one drops a bomb or runs into your house in the woods, then this is the one you’re going to want to pick out. Each section appears to be in a different color. Most people are either […]
