Accidents may happen
By: Charlotte Foltz Jones ; illustrated by John O'Brien.
Contributors: O'Brien, John, 1953- ill.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Technological innovations -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Discoveries in science -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Technological innovations.; Discoveries in science.; History, Modern -- Miscellanea.
Other titles: Fifty inventions discovered by mistake
Description: Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-84) and index.