Top 10 Accidental Inventions That Changed The World

3) Matches                                                     (3 of 10)

3) Matches                                                     (3 of 10)

People have been lighting fires for thousands of years, but no one had ever created a simple way to start a fire. That is until 1826, when a British pharmacist, John Walker had been stirring his pot of chemicals, and noticed that a small lump had formed on the end of the sticks.

He didn’t think much of it, and when he tried to scrape off the gob from the stick is caught on fire! Voila, that was how the matchstick was invented.