Most Weird Places where People got Business Ideas
By siliconindia
Accidental
Though pacemakers were available in the Fifties, Wilson Greatbatch, an American academician, stumbled upon a better one, while trying to record heart sounds. When he placed a wrong size of resistor in a circuit, it created a brief pulse, followed by a one-second silence, perfect for regulating a heartbeat.
Alexander Fleming rediscovered penicillin in 1928, when he noticed that a plate of bacteria had been contaminated by a mould--which was destroying the bacteria. He discovered its properties, and named it penicillin.