Andre Cassagnes died on January 16th in a Paris suburb. His name is not immediately known by most of us, but his invention, the Etch A Sketch, is one of the most iconic toys of the last 50 years - a staple of the Ohio Art Company. Cassagnes, a French electrician, came up with the idea in 1950 after peeling a decal off of a light switch plate and noticing the graphite stuck to the plastic surface o
Some of the greatest inventions the world has ever known, came about completely by mistake. Take for example, Cyanoacrylate which was invented by Harry Coover in 1951 as a result of an accident at Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak.