Ever had a day where everything seemed to go wrong?

Edward Murphy hypothesized...


If anything can go wrong, it will.


One day Capt. Edward Murphy, an engineer, was working on Air Force Project MX981 and things were just not going right. The project was designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can withstand in a crash.

After finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."

After they finally completed the project, the doctor who rode in the sled said that the good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it.

Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles.  Murphy's Law was born.

Was it just a chance misfortune? Click here to find out.



Home