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title: "Wikipedia wormhole: Safety glass was invented by accident in 1903 when chemist Édouard Bénédictus dropped a glass flask in his lab"
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminated_glass#History
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date: 2026-06-02
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🧪 **[Wikipedia wormhole: Safety glass was invented by accident in 1903 when chemist Édouard Bénédictus dropped a glass flask in his lab.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminated_glass#History)** It was coated in plastic from a previous experiment and hadn’t been cleaned. Have a nice accident today!

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