We tend to hold history's inventors in high esteem, praising their achievements as the fruit of ingenuity, insight, and painstaking research. But, as Robert Hume reveals, many products through history were stumbled upon merely by chance…
1) Potato crisps (1853)
One version of events is that George Crum, a Native-American/African-American chef at Moon's Lake House Lodge, an upmarket resort hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York, faced an awkward customer one day in 1853. One source names this customer as railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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