Accidental Inventions DVD

Last night I watched a DVD called Accidental Inventions: 10 Inventions, 10 extraordinary stories. According to my trusty Rex Bills book Inventions are ruled by Uranus & Aquarius and Accidents are ruled by Mars and Uranus (H1, Aries, H3). If you're driving a car or steering a kid through Wal-Mart you hope for no Accidents, but Artists pray for Accidents, they brazenly call making Accidents "The Creative Process." I wonder what Scientists hope and pray for. I've been told that they are linear thinkers but actually went to a remote viewing class with a bunch of them and the teacher said that they were among the most psychic people he had taught.

Wanted to see if Mars and Uranus transits & progressions play a big part in the charts of the Inventions and Inventors mentioned. Also, want to look at Mercury for observation abilities. I think I'll hone the charts down to just these aspects. I haven't found birth dates for all the Inventors and don't have exact dates for most of the "Accidents."

Extra Note: Chiron seems to be heavily aspected in Inventor's charts. He's the asteroid that's known as a hybrid between Saturn and Uranus and might be the right mix of using solid, traditional thought and determination and drive (Saturn) with futuristic thinking that is required for Invention. Saturn is probably as strong as Uranus. Saturn seems to be underrated for brilliant thinking by Astrologers kind of the same way that Taurus is for healing (my opinions). These are just my impressions though, don't have any (hehe) scientific statistical proofs.

Sometimes there are more than one Inventors involved. I looked at the charts of the ones who experienced the actual "Accident."

1. Microwave Oven. Rulership of Ovens: Mars, Aries, Sun, Leo. No rulership for Microwaves, but guess Uranus and Pluto would play a part.

Inventor: Percy Spencer, b. July 9, 1894, Howland, Maine. Working with Magnetrons, noticed the thing melted the candy bar in his pocket, put a bag of popcorn in and it popped. No mention of whether it melted Percy. He lived for a long time afterwards.

melted chocolate bar: 1945
1st commercial Microwave: 1946
1st consumer Microwave: 1967 Amana Radar Range.

Spencer's chart is "locomotive" shape bounded by a quincunx of Uranus in Scorpio and Mars in Aries. Mars is conjunct NN in Aries. Uranus is apex of a Yod with quincunxes to Mars in Aries and Pluto-Venus in Gemini on either leg. Mercury in Leo aspects both Mars (trine) and Uranus (square).

In 1945 when the popcorn started to pop, t.Uranus was passing over natal Pluto-Venus-Neptune in Gemini. T. Pluto was trining n. Mars-NN and just past conjunction with Mercury and squaring Uranus. T. NN was conjunct n. Sun.

2. Post-It Glue. Glue: Saturn. Reusable glue?: Pluto?

Inventor: Spencer Silver, b. 1941
12 years later, Inventor who realized glue could be used for tacking paper: Arthur Fry, b. 1931.

1978: 1st marketing in Boise Idaho.
1980 Officially introduced

3. Ether for anesthesia. Ether: Neptune, Uranus, Aquarius.

In the 1830s College students would use Laughing Gas to get high. Horace Wells went to one of these parties in Dec. 1944. Someone hurt his leg and he noticed that the guy was so busy laughing he didn't notice how damaged his leg was. Horace realized this could help in surgery.

Inventor: Horace Wells, b. Jan. 21, 1815, Vermont. Got the ball rolling.

In 1840 there was a mutual reception of the two rulers of Ether (Wells used Nitrous Oxide), Neptune and Uranus (same as now). He had a conjunction of Uranus-Mars-Neptune in Sagittarius. In Dec. 1840, t. Jupiter was conjunct his natal Uranus and t. Uranus was conjunct his n. Pluto in Pisces and squaring his n. Neptune. He was just past his Uranus square. Natal Mercury at 25 Capricorn c. n. Sun-Saturn in Aquarius. Prog. Mercury and Venus in Pisces were squaring natal Mars-Uranus.

Actually Horace didn't succeed in marketing Laughing Gas. Later Dr. William Morton and Dr. Charles Jackson performed the first public demonstration: Oct. 16, 1846, Massachusetts General Hospital. There was a mutual reception of Uranus and Neptune back during the 40s which could account for this.

4. Matches: Mars (Saturn, Pluto)

Inventor: John Walker, English Pharmacist stirred chemicals. B. May 29, 1781. Later the stick burst into flames. He began to sell as "Friction Lights." Sold them beginning on Nov. 27, 1826.

Walker had Mars at 25 Capricorn trining Mercury 29 Taurus. Prog. Mars was retrograde at 21 Capricorn. T. Uranus was at 22 Capricorn. Walker's natal Uranus was at 28 Gemini squaring Neptune at 4 Libra.

5. Teflon: no rulerships mentioned

1938: Dupont looking for a safer refrigerant. Chemist Roy Plunkett, b. June 26, 1910 New Carlisle, Ohio, plasticized refrigerator gasses on April 6, 1938.

Mercury, Mars, Uranus not in aspect. Mercury 13 Gemini; Mars 5 Leo; Uranus 25 Capricorn. Transiting Uranus, however, was widely separating from a conjunction to Saturn and a square to Mars.

6. Fingerprint detection, Super Glue Fuming. Fingers: Mercury, Gemini, H3. Printing Mercury, Gemini, H3. Forensics not listed but Pluto, H8 has to be involved.

1977: Inventor: Fuseo Matsumora, Japan, no Birth Date.

7. Cellophane: Cellulose: (Jupiter) Celluloid: (Uranus). I'd suspect that Neptune and Moon have something to do with a transparent wrap. Maybe even Venus.

1900: Dr. Brandenburger, b. Oct. 19, 1872, Zurich, Switzerland, was trying to make a waterproof tablecloth. He coated cloth with a thin film of cellulose. The cloth was too stiff but the clear, flexible coating peeled off and he realized it could be used. Dupont marketed in 1923.

Mars 9 Virgo square NN Gemini, trining Saturn 16 Capricorn. Uranus 6 Leo square Mercury 1 Scorpio. In 1900 (in March), prog. Mercury was conjunct t. Jupiter and Uranus & NN in Sagittarius and squaring n. Mars.

8. Dynamite: This is the result of at least a zillion accidents. Ruler: Uranus.

Invented by Alfred Nobel, b. Oct. 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden in 1864.

1863: Nobel's family was into explosives business. His brother and others were killed in one of their laboratories in 1864. In 1863 Alfred dropped nitroglycerin and figured he would die. Instead it landed on sawdust and didn't explode. He realized that mixing nitroglycerin with an inert substance kept it from extreme volatility. Eventually mixed with diatomaceous earth for TNT.

Mars 2 Scorpio c. Sun 28 Libra opposite Jupiter 2 Taurus. Mars c. Mercury 9 Scorpio. Mercury trine North Node in Cancer. Pluto in Aries squaring NN. Uranus 19 Aquarius. Going through a Uranus trine that year. T. Jupiter in Scorpio conjunct prog. Mars-Sun-NN. This may have been more of a Saturn thing since the Invention was to keep Accidents from happening. He developed a delayed reaction fuse. In 1893, Nobel was going through a Saturn Return and then Saturn passed over n. Sun and Mars. Saturn = Safety.

9. Velcro. Rulership not listed. Hooks: Saturn.

1948. Georges Demesterol, b. June 19, 1907, Lausanne, Switzerland, took his dog for a hike in 1948 and when they returned home he realized that the burrs that were stuck in his dog's fur could make great fasteners. Experimented for 3 years. Patented in 1951.

OK this is a good one. Mars 18 Capricorn c. Uranus 12 Capricorn opposite Neptune-Jupiter-Mercury-NN in Cancer. In 1948, t. Uranus 23 Gemini conjunct n. Pluto 24 Gemini. Natal Mercury-NN trine Saturn 28 Pisces.

10. Stainless Steel. Steel: Mars. Rust: Mars. Non-rusting: ?.

1913 Inventor Harry Brearly, b. Feb. 18, 1871 Sheffield, England, working for Sheffield in England was experimenting making Iron Alloys to create a stronger steel. Had cast off more than 4000 samples. One day in 1908 he looked in the cast-off bin and noticed that the sample that was mixed with Chromium had retained its sheen. The Chromium made a thin layer on top of the steel that kept it from rusting.

Grand Square of Saturn in Capricorn to North Node in Cancer squaring Mars in Libra opposite Chiron. In 1913, t. Uranus was conjunct n.Mercury in Aquarius and trining n. Mars in Libra. T. Neptune was c. n. Uranus. The Grand Square was aspecting by NN c. n.Chiron and t.Jupiter c. n. Saturn.