This bloke Alfred Fielding and this bloke mark seven, we're designing a new groovy type of wallpaper filled with air bubbles.

It didn't sell that well.

Welcome to watch mojo.

And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 products that were initially invented for a different purpose for this list.

We'll be looking at successful inventions that currently serves a different function than they were initially conceived.

I had the feeling the potential of the object.

I find it very simple to manufacture and the result of that it can be an object that is available for everyone.

Let us know in the comments below if you've ever used any of these products for their original purpose.

Number 10, chewing gum, original purpose rubber substitute.

Sugarless or organic.

People love to chew gum while it has existed in several forms throughout history.

What we now know as chewing gum originated from a substance called cheaply, which the ancient Mayans and Aztecs chewed a natural tree guy Cheekily was brought from Mexico to the US in the 1860s by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana and found its way into the hands of his secretary Thomas.

Adams Adams first marketed cheaply as a rubber substitute for tire production, but when that fails to catch on, he tweaked its composition and packaging, selling it as chewing gum.

But it wasn't until a traveling salesman named William Wrigley JR got into the business.

The chewing gum became a national pastime.

This revised product sold like wildfire and the rest, they say is some very rubbery history.

You never ask number nine Lysol.

Original purpose.

Vaginal douche new Lysol spray disinfectant.

The pleasant way to eliminate germs mildew and the odors they cause.

Even in spotless homes though it is now widely known as a household cleaning agent.

Lysol was originally marketed to women as a feminine hygiene product.

Various ads from the 19 twenties and thirties were recently discovered showing the disinfected being hailed not only as a hygiene product but as a method of contraception.

Yep, you heard that right at the time?

Oral contraceptives hadn't been invented yet and condoms were too expensive for the average person soul.

Lysol was adopted as the relatively cheaper and easily accessible option.

This didn't pan out well.

However, I want my bathroom to shine to smell fresh Now get both with Lysol disinfectant basin tub and tile cleaner as the product ended up causing a lot of internal damage.

The ads were eventually pulled and the brand put out a statement against using Lysol in or on the human body.

America's largest selling disinfectant today.

Number eight braille.

Original purpose military language braille simplified the system, reducing the cells from 12 to 6 raised dots.

So they were the ideal size for a fingertip to feel with one touch.

During the Napoleonic wars there was a need for a means of communication between soldiers that would allow them to evade detection by their opponents in response to this need Charles Barbier, a cap captain in the french army develops night writing a system that involved dots red with fingers without the use of a light source.

Although it was turned down by the military for being too difficult to read.

Barbier introduced it at the royal Institution for blind youth where louis braille happens to be a student.

His eye got infected and the infection spread to the other eye by five louis braille was completely blind.

Braille identified the flaws with Barbier system and modified it into what it is today.

An essential reading and writing tool for people who are visually impaired.

Whoa!

This is the new Henry screensaver.

You read braille?

Yeah, don't you?

Oh no, I'm not.

Um blind, it's all right to say it number seven play doh original purpose wallpaper cleaner four decades now this salty and colorful clay has been the go to toy for toddlers but we bet you didn't know that.

It was originally invented as a wallpaper cleaner.

The modeling compound produced by a Cincinnati based soap manufacturer called hotel products was advertised as a solution to suit stained wallpapers caused by how hold coal furnaces in Cincinnati products creates a putty like substance for getting soot off wallpaper, we'll call it wall cleaner.

But with the end of the Second World War, Most families transition to natural gas heating and the demand for wallpaper cleaners declined.

The head of the company, joseph Mcvicker decided to rework the cleaner and market it as a play object.

This saved the company's declining sales as played, became widely popular among toddlers selling a staggering two billion cans since its introduction.

I think a real learning benefit to plato is that you can increase your fine motor skills and just tactile development.

A child can learn very, very intricate skills with their own fingers.

Number six corks, true original purpose bullet extractor.

The traditional waiter's corkscrew or wine key, check it out.

The corkscrew is now a ubiquitous fixture in kitchens all around the world.

But it first came to prominence for an entirely different purpose in the 17th century.

An early form of the device known as the gun worm was used on the battlefield to remove unspent bullets stuck in the barrel of a musket.

In some cases, they were also used to extract bullets from wounds, especially those lodged deep in the bone or muscle.

The first one is based on talk so that you've got a corkscrew like this, which you basically use a turning action and a pulling action and this really exerts your muscle power.

It wasn't until the 18th century that several patents were filed for corkscrews modeled to open cork sealed bottles.

The first was granted in 17 95 to reverend Samuel Henshall whose design served as the blueprint for the modern day corkscrew.

I think we need to drink to this, don't you?

I think you're right.

I have a whole bottle, Number five Rubik's Cube, Original Purpose Learning Tool 17 10.

This is me The inventor of the Rubik's Cube.

Erno Rubik was a young sculpture and professor of architecture when he created the puzzling Cube in 1974.

At the time, Rubik was fascinated with the idea of space and three dimensional objects and needed a visual aid to better understand those concepts and teach them to his students.

I was lecturing.

Design and architecture was very similar in age with the students.

I was very ambitious to find new ways to teach them especially about space and three dimensions.

After making the first wooden prototype, Rubik's students quickly became fascinated with it which made him realize the potential of his toy Puzzle, Rubik's Cube was released to toy stores around the world in 1980 and became a worldwide phenomenon soon after today, the puzzle has seen over 450 million sales, making it the best selling puzzle game of all time.

But why is lining up the right colors of this cube so insanely difficult The reason there's only one correct answer, number four implantable pacemaker, original purpose sound recorder.

Hi I have a medical condition.

This is my pacemaker I.

D.

Card.

So I have a pacemaker so it might be.

But when you do it over my chest area, the invention of the implantable pacemaker marked an important milestone in modern medicine that has a allowed millions of people to live long healthy lives but it may shock you to know that this wonderful innovation was actually discovered by mistake In 1956 Wilson Greatbatch, one of the first engineers to work on the implantable pacemaker set out to create a device that would record the sounds of the heart.

Wilson Greatbatch was speaking with physicians and that's where he first learned about the problem of heart block.

However, after placing the wrong resistor in the circuit, he realized that his device had generated an electrical pulse that could regulate the heart's rhythm.

This led to the invention of the earliest form of the implantable pacemaker, which was first used in humans in April 1960 Number three, bubble wrap, original purpose plastic wallpaper.

This is the first bubble wrap manufacturing machine that was built in Hawthorne New Jersey in 1957.

This was originally built to produce wallpaper and that's a market that didn't take off.

So that's when they found a use for it in packaging.

If at first you don't succeed, you try and try and try again until you make it at least that was the lead up to the invention of everyone's favorite packaging material and stress reliever.

Now, who's with me, Let's celebrate the inventors of bubble wrap, Alfred Fielding and MArc stevens first created it as a plastic wallpaper filled with air bubbles When their bubble wallpaper failed to catch on.

The two reworked it and tried marketing it as a greenhouse insulator, but sadly that was also a failure.

Two years after its invention, Fielding and yvonne struck gold when they pitched the bubble wrap to IBM as a protective material for its new fragile computer.

It didn't quite stick.

But from that failure, bubble wrap was born number two coca cola.

Original purpose patent medicine, $670 billion.

That's the kind of business the global nonalcoholic ready to drink beverage industry does every year.

The largest player in that business is the coca cola company.

After the american civil war, many former soldiers started using morphine to relieve the pain from their war inflicted injuries and ended up developing an addiction to it.

One such person was john pemberton, a confederate colonel who would go on to invent one of the world's most popular soft drinks.

Pemberton went about adapting the bitter tasting medicine in the back room of his pharmacy.

What you have to do is mask it with a big old pile of sugar, which is what you find in a lot of soft drinks and energy drinks.

Back in 18 85 members who was also a pharmacist set out to find a cure for his addiction and came up with coca cola, a drink he marketed as a tonic for morphine addiction, nerve disorders and impotence.

The secret recipe was bought from Pemberton by another pharmacist and the tonic was rebranded from a patent medicine to the refreshing soft drink that we know and love today.

But the shining star is and always will be coca cola, the original soft drink before we continue, be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos.

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Number one Listerine, original purpose surgical antiseptic and general germ aside madam, do you suffer from it's latin for disease for rubes.

The name of this popular mouthwash brand came from joseph Lister, an english surgeon who pioneered the use of antiseptics during surgery.

Inspired by Lister's work joseph Lawrence, a Missouri based doctor developed a powerful formulation of his own antiseptic, which he called Listerine because Listerine kills Germs Lawrence first marketed Listerine as a surgical antiseptic as well as an all purpose germ aside to treat wounds, clean floors and even cure gonorrhea.

The product never really took off for any of these until the 19 twenties when its manufacturers in initiated an aggressive ad campaign that highlighted bad breath as a major societal problem.

They then promoted Listerine as the only solution to this problem, effectively carving out their own market.

Talk about a breath of fresh air.

Beautiful, beautiful shame money.