Wonderful Inventions by Chance
A New Cookie Star: Chocolate Chip Cookies
In America, there was a ____ cook, Ms. Wakefield.
One ____ in 1938, she wanted to bake chocolate cookies.
However, she ____ have enough time to melt chocolate.
So, she cut a chocolate bar into small ____.
Then, she mixed them with her dough and put the ____ dough into the oven.
When Ms. Wakefield opened the ____, she found that the chips were not melted into the dough.
Although the ____ remained in the cookies, she was not disappointed.
Her new ____ were so delicious.
She ____ chocolate CHIP cookies!
Finding Safety in Glass: Safety Glass
In 1903, a French scientist, Mr. Bénédictus, was experimenting with liquid plastic in a ____ flask.
He accidentally hit the glass flask, and it ____ on the floor.
Although the glass flask was broken ____ pieces, they still held together in the shape of the flask!
How could this ____?
The secret was the ____ plastic in the flask.
This finding led to his invention of safety ____.
These days, we ____ find safety glass everywhere.
For ____, it is used for car windows.
If there is a car ____, people are safer from sharp pieces of glass.
Cleaning Clothes Without Water: Dry Cleaning
Can you clean your clothes without ____?
The ____ is “yes.”
Dry cleaning uses oil to ____ clothes.
There’s an ____ story about dry cleaning.
In the 1800s, a factory worker in France spilled ____ oil on a tablecloth.
The factory manager, Mr. ____, looked at the tablecloth and found something.
The dirty ____ on the tablecloth was cleaned by the lamp oil!
His discovery ____ to a new way of cleaning clothes.
Now, dry cleaning is widely used around the ____.
These ____ inventions came by chance.
____ things go wrong, don’t be disappointed.
Maybe you can be the ____ amazing inventor.