Built by Accidents, Fixed by Breakage
Jet engines were honed by “running the device to destruction, analyzing what broke… and repeating.” Penicillin came from accidental lab contamination.How Innovation Happens: Serendipity vs Science in Technology
Tech First, Explanation Later
Many technologies grew from engineering and tinkering, not from prior scientific theory. Explanations often followed the inventions.How Innovation Happens: Serendipity vs Science in Technology
