nicole grey
3 min readMay 30, 2020

The history of great inventions

It is no secret that sometimes great discoveries come as a result of tremendous mistakes .Mistakes can lead to greatness or disaster .Mistakes can be key to making good inventions .Sometimes inventions appear in plain sites .The inventor of the microwave ,Percy Spencer liked inventing and fixing things ,He would always watch his uncle fix old things and that inspired him to try really hard to make good things.

One day when he was standing near the magnetron which was turned on .He had a chocolate bar in his pocket, it melted .The idea for the microwave was formed .The microwave was made for the public 20 years later .In 1871 Henrrick Schliemann ,an adventurer started to dig in the land of a Turkish city .He had been searching for the lost city for many years .In 1868 he met another archeologist ,Calvert who had land in turkey.

They started to dig together.Schliemann wanted everyone to know, but Calvert wanted to keep it secret.Schliemann did it his way.Lots of things and artifacts were shoveled out by the workers that he hired. He is famous now for finding Troy but also known for being a dishonest person.However Calvert, the person who had the right idea remains nobody.

Calverts mistake of working with Schliemann resulted in ruining his site, being a sell out and missing out on seeing and studying the artifacts like a true archeologist would.Scientists work decades to perfect their designs before they even start to build.Once they start to build they run in to many physical difficulties that set them back very much.It takes many mistakes to fail but one to be a champion.

Without mistakes discoveries would not have been made Most mistakes do not lead directly to discoveries .While inventing do not fear mistakes not even failure .The only thing to fear is fear itself.Failure is not making a mistake it is not even trying in the first place .The things engineers create are magnificent but we have to remember Nobody and nothing is perfect .Just Imagine how many mistakes they made and how long it took them to perfect the final product.