Science and serendipity ; great discoveries by accident / [by] D. S. Halacy, Jr. Illus. by Frank Fretz.

Serendipity & science.
Friedrich Wöhler and the synthesis of urea.
Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin.
Luigi Galvani and the electrical frog legs.
Roentgen, Becquerel, and their mysterious rays.
Charles Goodyear and the vulcanization of rubber.
Schoenbein, Nobel, and their explosives.
Thomas Edison and his talking machine.
Aloys Senefelder and lithography.
Donald Stookey and ceramic glass.
Vincent Schaefer: the rainmaker.
Dr. Parkes and the freezing of living cells.
And more serendipity!