Serendipitous Discoveries
This was invented when an 11 year old left some fruit juice left out over night with a stir stick in it
What is a popsicle?
e=mc2
Who is Einstein?
The most famous bridge in San Francisco.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
Golden Gate Bridge is this type of bridge.
What is a Suspension Bridge?
The London Eye is the world's tallest one of these, standing 135 metres tall.
What is a Ferris wheel?
Burrs from a nature walk stuck to a dog and inspired this one.
What is velcro?
Eureka!
Who is Archimedes?
The world's longest structure.
What is the Great Wall of China?
The Panama canal joins these 2 oceans.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
This high speed invention can reach speeds of up to 350 kph.
What is a passenger train?
John Pemberton, a pharmacist, created this liquid, intending it to be nothing more than medication.
What is coca cola?
The Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The crown of this statue has 7 spikes to represent the 7 oceans and continents
What is the Statue of Liberty?
The Taj Mahal is found in this country.
What is India?
Golf balls have dimples because they allow the ball to fly further than a smooth ball. It reduces this.
What is drag?
John Walker was stirring a pot of chemicals when he noticed a dried lump had formed on the end of the mixing stick. Without thinking, he tried to scrape off the dried gob and invented this.
What is a matchstick?
Tesla Motors.
Who is Elon Musk?
Every 7 years, 50 tons of paint, a team of painters and 18 months are required to completely cover this structure.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
Beam, arch, suspension, cantilever, truss, and cable-stayed.
What are types of bridges?
This type of engineering involves the investigation of failed structures and materials. This engineer works to understand how these failures occurred.
What is Forensic engineering?
This was supposed to be a substance that cleaned wall paper, but soon kids were creating with it.
What is Play Doh?
Candle, trampoline, comb: 16 year old child inventor, George Nissen, invented this item.
What is the trampoline?
Where the tallest building in the world (the Burj Khalifa) is located.
What is Dubai?
The Great Sphinx of Giza has the head of a human and the body of this.
What is a lion?
The word engineer comes from a Latin word meaning this.
What is "cleverness"?