Question 1

What Karl Benz invented?

Accepted Answer

Invented in 1885.

Question 2

What J. B. Dunlop invented?

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John Boyd Dunlop, a veterinary surgeon, invented the pneumatic tyre in 1887.

Question 3

Who came up with the idea for INSTANT MASHED POTATO?

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Instant mash was invented by Edward A Asselbergs, a Canadian, in 1962. The mash is actually dehydyated potato flakes.

Question 4

What invention was first installed at a Hartford, Connecticut bank in 1889?

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William Gray, inventor of the pay telephone, also invented the inflatable chest protector worn by baseball umpires and catchers.

Question 5

What Elisha Otis invented?

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In 1853, American inventor Elisha Otis demonstrated a freight elevator equipped with a safety device to prevent falling in case a supporting cable should break. This increased public confidence in such devices. Otis established a company for manufacturing elevators and patented (1861) a steam elevator. Many people think that he invented the elevator, but the truth is, he invented the elevator brake. He also invented the railway safety brake.

Question 6

What charge card, developed in 1950, was the first to be accepted nationally in the US?

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The card was invented by Frank McNamara and Ralph Schneider.

Question 7

Who invented the Seed Drill?

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It was invented around the early 1700's.

Question 8

Who invented Bicycle?

Accepted Answer

Kirkpatrick Macmillan

Question 9

What invention is credited to the Russian born American inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin?

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Zworykin invented both the tube (iconoscope) for transmission and the receiver (kinescope) in 1923 and 1924, respectively.

Question 10

When were blue jeans invented?

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The first blue jeans were invented by tailor Levi Strauss, who invented tougher working pants for the miners of the California Gold Rush.

Question 11

In which decade was the AEEE (now the IEEE) founded?

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The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, founded 1912) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE, founded 1884).

Question 12

When were bar code scanners invented?

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The scanner reads the bar code label on something at a supermarket, and translates it into a number which the computer reads.

Question 13

What did cardiologist Dr. Paul Zoll invent in Massachusetts in 1952?

Accepted Answer

The pacemaker is an electrical device that regulates the heartbeat.

Question 14

Which scientist discovered the radioactive element radium?

Accepted Answer

Marie Curie

Question 15

What Galileo invented?

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Various authors have credited the invention of the thermometer to Cornelius Drebbel, Robert Fludd, Galileo Galilei or Santorio Santorio. The thermometer was not a single invention, however, but a development. Galileo Galilei also discovered that objects (glass spheres filled with aqueous alcohol) of slightly different densities would rise and fall, which is nowadays the principle of the Galileo thermometer (shown). Today such thermometers are calibrated to a temperature scale.

Question 16

What item, originally called the 'Whirlwind', was invented by Ives McGaffey in 1869?

Accepted Answer

Vacuum cleaner

Question 17

Who invented Bakelite?

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Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented the first plastic called Bakelite.

Question 18

What drink was invented by Charles Leiper Grigg in 1929?

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Grigg, who was from Missouri, originally named his creation 'Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda'.

Question 19

Who is the english physicist responsible for the "Big Bang Theory"?

Accepted Answer

George Gamow. Gamow, who died in 1968, was a physicist, who published “Thirty Years that Shook Physics”.

Question 20

Helicopter was invented by

Accepted Answer

Broquet

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