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>Counterexamples? Would love to hear them. Penicillin
by xiaoma 15y ago
>Counterexamples? Would love to hear them.
Penicillin
- tedunangst 15y agoAlong those lines, the smallpox vaccine and X-rays.
- parfe 15y agoThe smallpox vaccine that eliminated the disease certainly had lesser know and effective predecessor as early as 1770: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox
- incremental 15y agoNot really a product, though, so that doesn't count as a good example. Obviously a major discovery with high impact, though.
- xiaoma 15y agoPenicillin is produced, distributed and sold. I've bought it more than once and consider it to be a product. What do you feel is the necessary criteria for something to called a product?