Comhroinn Fuaime

<speak> <prosody rate="90%" pitch="+2%"> In the early nineteen hundreds, French chemist Edouard Benedictus invented shatterproof glass by chance. <break time="600ms"/> But its significance and relevance did not emerge until the car market created the problem for which he had already found the an…

<speak> <prosody rate="90%" pitch="+2%"> In the early nineteen hundreds, French chemist Edouard Benedictus invented shatterproof glass by chance. <break time="600ms"/> But its significance and relevance did not emerge until the car market created the problem for which he had already found the answer. <break time="800ms"/> Such moments of serendipity reveal the unpredictable nature of innovation. <break time="500ms"/> Yet even in cases where chance plays a role, as in Benedictus's story, the