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
Who discovered calculus?
Sir Isaac Newton
Who invented an efficient, compression ignition, internal combustion engine
Rudolf Diesel
Who invented the wireless telegraph?
Guglielmo Marconi
Who invented the first successful flying airplane
Orville & Wilbur Wright
Who invented mechanical reaper/harvester
Cyrus McCormick
Who invented the railroad air brakes?
George Westinghouse
who invented the railroad sleeping car?
George Pullman
they called the train cars “Pullmans”
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
Rudolf Diesel
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?
Post-It Notes
Name the type of engine that drive freight trucks, large buses, locomotives, tractors and heavy equipment plus submarines, ships, and emergency electric power generators
Diesel
Who invented the Kodak camera?
George Eastman
Who invented the Electric telegraph
Samuel Morse
Who invented vulcanized rubber?
Charles Goodyear?
Who invented the steel plow?
John Deere
Who invented the microwave oven?
Percy Spencer
Who invented dynamite?
Alfred Nobel
Who invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
