Heinrich Schliemann Lost Cities Lost Treasure

Most of the discoveries in science were mistakes some people say, but the other side says that it is the opposite. For instance, a part of a quote from the last passage (paragraph 23, quotes) says that “we learn wisdom from failure but much more from success”. This essay will state my opinion on the subject
In Passage 1 (Lost Cities, Lost treasure) is about a man called Heinrich Scliemann who was obsessed with archaeology and was determined to find Troy (mythological city). Schliemann had a lot of money from the Gold Rush in California. According passage 1 Schliemann was a nice person but sometimes was tricky. Meanwhile in Greece, Frank Calvert (a British archaeologist) found a site could have possibly had Troy buried deep underground. Back then in 1868 Calvert didn’t have any money to continue his research so when Schliemann decided to find Troy with Calvert then take the credit and money for himself. The passage says that Scliemann dug a lot of trenches and in the process, disturbed the site carelessly. Calvert’s relatives are working on giving Calvert the credit currently.

In 1894 Percy Spencer was born. He said when he was little he “liked to tinker and discover how things worked”. When he was 16 he went to help his family with a job at a machine shop. That job taught him how to work with electricity, so when he got older he became an electrician an Raytheon. Raytheon was the company that invented smaller radios and they had families all over America, that adopted these radios, so it was very popular. One of the later experiments that Raytheon conducted was the magnetron which made microwaves (tiny waves) to create heat. One day, Percy Spencer came near the magnetron while it was switched on, when he came near the machine he had a bar of chocolate he was carrying which melted and gave him an idea. No one knew the potential of the magnetron until the chocolate melted. (Passage