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7th-9th Grade: Inventions Flashcards

1
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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.

A

Louis Braille

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2
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Who invented the smallpox vaccine in 1796?

A

Edward Jenner

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3
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Who developed the first polio vaccine in 1952?

A

Jonas Salk

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4
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Who invented penicillin in 1928?

A

Alexander Fleming

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5
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Who invented the rabies vaccine?

A

Louis Pasteur

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6
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What Italian astronomer developed the telescope?

A

Galileo (pronounced gal-la-lay-o)

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7
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Who invented the bifocal lenses?

A

Ben Franklin

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8
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Who invented the incandescent light bulb?

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Thomas Edison

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9
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Who invented the cotton gin?

A

Eli Whitney

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10
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Who invented the assembly line?

A

Henry Ford

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11
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Who invented dynamite?

A

Alfred Nobel

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12
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Who invented the elevator*?

A

Elisha Otis

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13
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Who invented the phonograph?

A

Thomas Edison

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14
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Who invented the telegraph?

A

Samuel Morse

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15
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Who invented the telephone?

A

Alexander Graham Bell

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16
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Who invented interchangeable parts?

A

Eli Whitney

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17
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Who designed and operated the world’s first commercially successful steamboat.

A

Robert Fulton

18
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What was the world’s first commercially successful steamboat’s name?

A

Clermont

invented by Robert Fulton

19
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What American inventor was known as The Wizard or Menlo Park?

A

Thomas Edison

20
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What American inventor discovered a process of heating rubber with sulfur to improve its properties?

A

Charles Goodyear

21
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Who discovered the law of gravity?

A

Sir Isaac Newton

22
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What Polish astronomer first proposed that the planets revolved around the sun?

A

Copernicus (pronounced Koe-per-nuh-kiss)

23
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What German geologist created a scale used to measure mineral hardness where talc is one and ten is for a diamond

A

Friedrich Mohl

he invented Mohl’s scale

24
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What scientist discovered the three laws of planetary motion?

A

Kepler

25
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Who discovered calculus?

A

Sir Isaac Newton

26
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Who invented an efficient, compression ignition, internal combustion engine

A

Rudolf Diesel

27
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Who invented the wireless telegraph?

A

Guglielmo Marconi

28
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Who invented the first successful flying airplane

A

Orville & Wilbur Wright

29
Q

Who invented mechanical reaper/harvester

A

Cyrus McCormick

30
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Who invented the railroad air brakes?

A

George Westinghouse

31
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who invented the railroad sleeping car?

A

George Pullman

they called the train cars “Pullmans”

32
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What man developed the type of internal combustion engine which does not require spark plugs to ignite the fuel? This engine named after him powers most 18-wheelers

A

Rudolf Diesel

33
Q

A scientist at the 3M corporation attempted to develop a super-strong adhesive but instead accidentally created a reusable adhesive. The adhesive was use to develop what square, yellow note pad?

A

Post-It Notes

34
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Name the type of engine that drive freight trucks, large buses, locomotives, tractors and heavy equipment plus submarines, ships, and emergency electric power generators

A

Diesel

35
Q

Who invented the Kodak camera?

A

George Eastman

36
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Who invented the Electric telegraph

A

Samuel Morse

37
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Who invented vulcanized rubber?

A

Charles Goodyear?

38
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Who invented the steel plow?

A

John Deere

39
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Who invented the microwave oven?

A

Percy Spencer

40
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Who invented dynamite?

A

Alfred Nobel

41
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Who invented the telephone

A

Alexander Graham Bell

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