Website review: Pocket Gadget & Serendipity: 10 acc...
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•74 reviews since Jan 16, 2008
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DannyAndNina rated 6 months ago- The power of serendipity
- sarinxr rated 6 months ago
- Brilliant information.
- sleeplessinKL rated 6 months ago
- 10 accidental inventions
- geeoutlier rated 6 months ago
- Scientific discoveries are rarely marked by someone shouting "Eureka!", more often they are marked by someone staring at some data scratching their head saying "thats... odd"
- Laboo63 rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Serendipity: 10 accidental inventions"
- jack-black rated 6 months ago
&nbs p; 4 ....Champagne
While many know that Dom Pierre Pérignon is credited for the invention of champagne, it was not the 17th century Benedictine monk's intention to make a wine with bubbles in it - in fact, he had spent years trying to prevent just that, as bubbly wine was considered a sure sign of poor winemaking.
Pérignon's original wish was to cater for the French court's preference for white wine. Since black grapes were easier to grow in the Champagne region, he invented a way of pressing white juice from them. But since Champagne's climate was relatively cold, the wine had to be fermented over two seasons, spending the second year in the bottle. This produced a wine loaded with bubbles of carbon dioxide, which Pérignon tried but failed to eradicate. Happily, the new wine was a big hit with the aristocratic crowds in both the French and English courts.
- Riff-Randell4 rated 6 months ago
- I almost skipped this, but I enjoyed it. If anyone should ever find themselves in Kingston Ontario, be sure to pay a visit to KGH. They have an excellent display of pacemakers from the first, to the latest.
- raikiri86 rated 6 months ago
- top 10 accidents that we cant live without
