7th-9th Grade: Inventions Flashcards
This French inventor was blinded at age three. Name this man who went on the develop a system of printing and writing for the blind, still used today.
Louis Braille
Who invented the smallpox vaccine in 1796?
Edward Jenner
Who developed the first polio vaccine in 1952?
Jonas Salk
Who invented penicillin in 1928?
Alexander Fleming
Who invented the rabies vaccine?
Louis Pasteur
What Italian astronomer developed the telescope?
Galileo (pronounced gal-la-lay-o)
Who invented the bifocal lenses?
Ben Franklin
Who invented the incandescent light bulb?
Thomas Edison
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Who invented the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Who invented dynamite?
Alfred Nobel
Who invented the elevator*?
Elisha Otis
Who invented the phonograph?
Thomas Edison
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
Who designed and operated the world’s first commercially successful steamboat.
Robert Fulton
What was the world’s first commercially successful steamboat’s name?
Clermont
invented by Robert Fulton
What American inventor was known as The Wizard or Menlo Park?
Thomas Edison
What American inventor discovered a process of heating rubber with sulfur to improve its properties?
Charles Goodyear
Who discovered the law of gravity?
Sir Isaac Newton
What Polish astronomer first proposed that the planets revolved around the sun?
Copernicus (pronounced Koe-per-nuh-kiss)
What German geologist created a scale used to measure mineral hardness where talc is one and ten is for a diamond
Friedrich Mohl
he invented Mohl’s scale
What scientist discovered the three laws of planetary motion?
Kepler
