Edouard Benedictus and Accidental Safety Glass

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English - September 04, 2015 10:22 - 1 minute - 5.86 MB Video
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When a glass flask was knocked to the floor in Eduard Benedictus' laboratory he was surprised to discover that the glass had shattered but somehow the flask stayed together. It was all the result of his assistant failing to clean away the remains of the previous experiment. Reading about a rash of car accidents gave him the inspiration to turn this accident into a useful discovery – safety glass.