Jones, Charlotte Foltz.

Accidents may happen / Subtitle on cover: Fifty inventions discovered by mistake Charlotte Foltz Jones ; illustrated by John O'Brien. - New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, c1996. - viii, 86 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-84) and index.

Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being.

ISBN: 0385321627 (HC : alk. paper) 0385322402 (pbk.)

LCCN: 95041274

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Technological innovations--History--Juvenile literature.
Discoveries in science--History--Juvenile literature.
Technological innovations.
Discoveries in science.
History, Modern--Miscellanea.

LC Class. No.: T173.8 / .J65 1996

Dewey Class. No.: 124