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A 7 page research paper that discusses advancements and innovations. This examination of scientific creative innovation begins with the medicine and the penicillin revolution, but then looks also at the examples of creative revolutions that have occurred in the contemporary era and concludes with observations bout the way in which scientific and technological creativity tends to overlap. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the revolution that allowed prehistoric people to settle in one location and plant crops. The Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century, as this body of technological change provides the foundation
in which the present rapid innovation has its roots. The following examination of scientific creative innovation begins with the medicine and the penicillin revolution, but then looks also at the
examples of creative revolutions that have occurred in the contemporary era and concludes with observations bout the way in which scientific and technological creativity tends to overlap. The penicillin
revolution The discovery and development of penicillin has been widely characterized as the most significant advancement ever made "in the entire history of medicine" (Cavendish 59). Considerable mythology surrounds the
serendipitous discovery that Alexander Fleming made in 1928. According to Fleming, he returned to his lab after a holiday and found colonies of bacteria growing in various petri dishes that
were waiting to be cleaned. However, in one dish, mold had grown and Fleming noted that this mold seemed to inhibit the growth of the staphylococcus germs that were in
the dish (Cavendish 59). The mold was Penicillium notatum, which is typically found on moldy bread and Fleming term the liquid secreted by this mold "penicillin" (Cavendish 59).
While it is true that Fleming noted the effect of this substance on bacterial growth, the discovery entirely by chance, as Fleming had been searching for antibacterial agents, and, therefore,
was cognitively primed to notice the reduced bacterial growth in that particular petri dish (Wong). Attempts made by Fleming to replicate this circumstance resulted in failure and he also failed
to find any practical use for penicillin. He wrote a paper on the subject, but this did not attract scientific attention at the time and the discovery languished for a
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