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- Question
What inspired reflecting road lights to be invented?
Options- A. Car door reflecting mirrors
- B. The light a cat's eyes gave off on a fence
- C. Sun light on steel posts on road sides
- D. The sun light on the windshield
- Correct Answer
- The light a cat's eyes gave off on a fence
ExplanationIn 1933, Englishman Percy Shaw was driving home when he saw a cat's eyes reflecting. He had been headed straight towards a fence with the cat on it, but on the other side was a drop of hundreds of feet. - 1. Who invented Bifocal Lens?
Options- A. Alfred B. Nobel
- B. Thomas Alva Edison
- C. Benjamin Franklin
- D. Rudolf Diesel Discuss
- 2. CORN FLAKES - Who made them first?
Options- A. Nabisco
- B. Kellogg
- C. Quaker
- D. Archers Discuss
- 3. Who was the first person to patent the JET ENGINE?
Options- A. F. Whittle
- B. C. Lindbergh
- C. W. Histell
- D. B. Owings Discuss
- 4. What Henry Bessemer invented?
Options- A. Aluminum
- B. Electroplating
- C. Steel Converter
- D. Steel rolling mill Discuss
- 5. What George Pullman invented?
Options- A. Sleeping (railway) car
- B. Airship
- C. Box car (railway)
- D. Air brakes Discuss
- 6. When was the first lawn mower invented?
Options- A. 1830
- B. 1854
- C. 1835
- D. 1849 Discuss
- 7. Who invented Airship (rigid)?
Options- A. Dr. Alan M. Turing
- B. Roger Bacon
- C. G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
- D. Otto Discuss
- 8. Who invented the battery?
Options- A. John Wilkinson
- B. Alessandro Volta
- C. James Hargreaves
- D. Thomas Edison Discuss
- 9. Who was the first American female to patent her invention, a method of weaving straw with silk?
Options- A. Marjorie Joyner
- B. Margaret Knight
- C. Amanda Jones
- D. Mary Kies Discuss
- 10. For over 500 years, paper was only available and sold as single sheets. In 1902, an inventive Australian used half size sheets of paper, a bit of glue and cardboard to create the what?
Options- A. Notepad
- B. Calendar
- C. Notice Board
- D. Telephone Book Discuss
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Correct Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Correct Answer: Kellogg
Explanation:
Will Keith Kellogg discovered the corn flake, by mistake, in 1906. They were the result of an experiment which went wrong.
Correct Answer: F. Whittle
Explanation:
British inventor Frank Whittle was the first to patent his design for a jet engine in 1930. Although an engine designed by Dr. Hans Von Ohain was the first to fly in 1939. Whittle's jet engine first flew in 1941.
Correct Answer: Steel Converter
Explanation:
Invented in 1856.
Correct Answer: Sleeping (railway) car
Explanation:
Invented in 1857.
Correct Answer: 1830
Explanation:
The first lawn mowers were not engine powered. Invented in 1830 by Edwin Budding of England, the mowers were turning blades on wooden sticks used to cut grass. Engine powered mowers were not invented until 1919 by an American Army colonel, who used the motor from a washing machine.
Correct Answer: G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
Correct Answer: Alessandro Volta
Explanation:
He was an Italian scientist, and he invented the battery in 1800.
Correct Answer: Mary Kies
Explanation:
Mary was not the first American woman inventor to be sure, there were many female inventors before her, but they never bothered to get a patent.
Correct Answer: Notepad
Explanation:
Birchall's of Launceston in Tasmania started selling the world?s first notepads, calling them 'Silvercity Writing Tablets' after J A Birchall thought it would be a good idea to back sheets of paper with cardboard and glue them together at the top. His British paper suppliers weren?t so keen, but, they were persuaded by Birchall that it was a good idea!
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