> For example, the person who figured out how to heat food with microwaves (and created the first microwave) didn't set out to do so, he discovered that the cho

> For example, the person who figured out how to heat food with microwaves (and created the first microwave) didn't set out to do so, he discovered that the chocolate bar in his front pocket melted while working on magnetrons. Willis Carrier was hired to build a machine to prevent the humidity in a room from making inks bleed at a magazine. He built the machine, which pulled moisture from the air by pulling them onto cooled coils, only to discover that the room dropped significantly in temperature. He ran with it, and eventually founded the Carrier air conditioning company.