French chemist Edouard Benedictus accidentally dropped a flask on the ground.
To his surprise, it did not shatter but the pieces stuck together due to a thin film that came from the evaporation of cellulose nitrate , obtained from cotton and nitric acid.
When she read a story about the cuts a girl had received from a car windshield, she remembered her flask. After a night's work, he invented Triplex , the world's first safety glass, which he patented in 1910 .
