Great Inventions: How Penicillin Changed The World

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Many of great inventions have happened on accident. According to “Not-So-Dumb-Luck” it shows how five inventions were created by accident including the potato chip, silly putty, cornflakes, velcro, and penicillin. Now penicillin is what we are going to be focused on today. And how it changed the world.To begin with, how was penicillin discovered? Well according to “Not-So-Dumb-Luck” it states that Alexander Fleming went on a vacation and left his lab a mess and that every dish that was left out in the open was covered in bacteria. But one dish had a ring around the mold and that ring was penicillin which had wafted from another floor. So with this information in mind you see how penicillin was discovered.To continue, now that you know how
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