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In the early nineteen hundreds, French chemist Edouard Benedictus invented shatterproof glass by chance.
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But its significance and relevance did not emerge until the car market created the problem for which he had already found the an…
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In the early nineteen hundreds, French chemist Edouard Benedictus invented shatterproof glass by chance.
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But its significance and relevance did not emerge until the car market created the problem for which he had already found the answer.
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Such moments of serendipity reveal the unpredictable nature of innovation.
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Yet even in cases where chance plays a role, as in Benedictus's story, the