Explorers Discoverers Inventors Flashcards
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Invented Electric toaster
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General Electric Labs
2
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Discovered Radium
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Marie and Pierre Curie
3
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Invented Geometry
A
Euclid
4
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Invented Liquid-fueled rocket
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Robert Goddard
5
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Explored southern Louisiana Purchase territory
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Zebulon Pike
6
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Invented Microscope (compound)
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Zacharias Janssen
7
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Invented Artificial heart
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Robert Jarvik
8
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Discovered Cells
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Robert Hooke
9
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Invented Movable type
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Johann Gutenberg
10
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British explorer of Antarctic
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James Ross
11
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Discovered Uranus
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Sir William Herschel
12
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Invented Safety razor
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King Gillette
13
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Englishman who discovered Australia and Hawaii
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James Cook
14
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Discovered Speech center of the brain
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Paul Broca
15
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Discovered oral polio vaccine
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Albert Sabin
16
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Discovered Penicillin
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Alexander Fleming
17
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Invented Elevator
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Elisha Otis
18
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Englishman who discovered world’s 5th largest island
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William Baffin
19
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Invented Fountain pen
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Lewis Waterman
20
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Invented Aqua-lung
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Jacques Cousteau
21
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Discovered Cure for smallpox
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Edward Jenner
22
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Invented Airplane
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Wright brothers
23
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Invented Revolver
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Samuel Colt
24
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Invented Loom
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Joseph Marie Jacquard
25
Discovered Oxygen
Joseph Priestly
26
Frenchman who founded Montreal and chartered St. Lawrence River
Jacques Cartier
27
Invented Air conditioner
Willis Carrier
28
Invented Hamburger
Salisbury
29
Invented Dynamite
Alfred Nobel
30
Invented Television iconoscope
Vladimir Zworykin
31
Invented Magnifying glass
Roger Bacon
32
Invented Food freezing
Clarence Birdseye
33
Invented Zipper
Whitcomb Judson
34
Discovered Cause of syphilis
August von Wassermann
35
Explored northern Louisiana Purchase territory
Lewis and Clark
36
Invented Compression-ignition engine
Rudolf Diesel
37
Invented Thermometer (open column)
Galileo
38
Portuguese explorer and first to reach India
Vasco de Gama
39
Invented Electric coil
Stanley
40
Invented Sewing machine
Elias Howe
41
Discovered Pluto
Clyde Tombaugh
42
Invented Cylinder locks
Linus Yale
43
Invented Mechanical grain reaper
Cyrus McCormick
44
Explorer of northwest Canada
Alexander Mackenzie
45
Invented Machine Gun
Richard Gatling
46
Discovered Moons of Jupiter
Galileo
47
Invented Phonograph
Thomas Edison
48
Speke's colleague - spoke 29 languages
Sir Richard Burton
49
Danish explorer of Alaska and namesake strait
Vitus Bering
50
Discovered Neptune
Johann Galle
51
Spaniard who discovered the Mississippi River
Hernando de Soto
52
Invented Gyroscope
Leon Foucault
53
Invented Submachine gun
John Thompson
54
First to sail into New York harbor
Giovanni da Verrazano
55
Discovered Electrical resistance laws
George Ohm
56
Invented Paper
Cai Lun
57
Invented Thermometer (mercury)
Gabriel Fahrenheit
58
First to set foot on U.S. mainland (Florida)
Ponce de Leon
59
Invented Motion picture machine
Thomas Edison
60
Invented Calculus
Sir Isaac Newton
61
Invented Wireless
Guglielmo Marconi
62
Incan Conqueror and explorer of Peru
Francisco Pizarro
63
Explorer of the Gambia and Niger Rivers
Mungo Park
64
Invented Scissors
Leonardo da Vinci
65
Invented Telescope (reflecting)
Sir Isaac Newton
66
Englishman who discovered source of the Nile (disputed)
John Speke
67
Norse explorer of northeast North America - Eric the Red's son
Leif Erickson
68
Portuguese discoverer of Brazil
Pedro Cabral
69
Discovered Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein
70
Frenchmen who explored the length of Mississippi River
Marquette and Joliet
71
Invented Electric razor
Jacob Schick
72
Invented Bifocal lens
Benjamin Franklin
73
Discovered Cause of Yellow Fever
Walter Reed
74
Invented Telegraph
Samuel Morse
75
Invented IQ test
Alfret Binet
76
Invented Mimeograph
A.B. Dick
77
Invented Dirigible airship
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
78
Invented Kodak camera (hand-held)
George Eastman
79
Invented English derby hat
Bowler
80
Invented Adding machine
Blaise Pascal
81
Invented Railroad sleeping car
George Pullman
82
Venetian who explored Asia
Marco Polo
83
The Father of New France - founded Quebec
Samuel de Champlain
84
Frenchman who explored the southern Mississippi River
Sieur de la Salle
85
Invented Hybrid popcorn
Orville Redenbacher
86
Discovered Insulin
Banting and Best
87
Discovered DNA
Francis Crick and James Watson
88
Discovered Rabies vaccine
Louis Pasteur
89
Invented Ink blot test
Herman Rorschach
90
Invented Transistor
Bell Telephone Labs
91
Invented Steam engine
James Watt
92
Invented Telescope (astronomical)
Galileo
93
Norwegian who first navigated Northwest passage
Roald Amundsen
94
Discovered Fermentation
Louis Pasteur
95
Invented Barometer
Evangelistra Torricelli
96
Invented Cyclotron
Ernest O. Laurence
97
Invented Microscope (electron)
Vladimir Zworykin
98
First to fly over the North Pole
Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett
99
Invented Electric motor
Michael Faraday
100
Invented helicopter (single rotor)
Igor Sikorsky
101
Dutchman who explored the Pacific
Abel Tasman
102
Invented Outboard engine
Ole Evinrude
103
Discovered Photo-electric effect
Albert Einstein
104
Invented Electric lamp
Thomas Edison
105
John Cabot's son who explored Rio de la Plata
Sebastian Cabot
106
Italian explorer who discovered Newfoundland
John Cabot
107
Invented Contact lenses
Frick
108
Invented Gas burner
Robert Bunsen
109
First to reach North Pole - 1909
Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
110
Invented Computer concept
Charles Babbage
111
First person given credit for sailing around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
112
Explorer of American southwest; searched for 7 cities of Cibola
Francisco de Coronado
113
Discovered X-Ray imaging
Wilhelm Roentgen
114
Invented Earthquake intensity device
Charles Richter
115
Discovered Laws of genetics
Gregor Mendel
116
Discovered Nucleus of the atom
Ernest Rutherford
117
Invented Storage battery
Alessandro Volta
118
Invented Vulcanized rubber
Charles Goodyear
119
Invented AC generator
Nicoli Tesla
120
Discovered Antibodies
Louis Pasteur
121
Invented Grape Juice
Thomas Welch
122
First Englishman to sail around the world
Sir Francis Drake
123
Competitor of Amundsen - died after reaching the South Pole
Robert Scott
124
Invented Refrigerator car
Gustavis Swift
125
Invented Motion picture camera
Lumiere brothers
126
Invented Blind reading system
Louis Braille
127
Machu Picchu discoverer
Hiram Bingham
128
Invented Instant (Polaroid) camera
Edwin Land
129
Portuguese discoverer of California
Juan Cabrillo
130
Discoverer of the New World
Christopher Columbus
131
German naturalist who explored the Orinoco
Friedrich Humboldt
132
Invented Screw
Archimedes
133
Invented Spark plug
Albert Champion
134
Invented Photographic film
George Eastman
135
Invented Air brakes
George Westinghouse
136
Invented Telescope
Hans Lippershey
137
Discovered Hydrostatics
Archimedes
138
First to reach South Pole - 1911
Roald Amundsen
139
Discovered Polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
140
Discovered the Great Salt Lake
Jim Bridger
141
Norse explorer who first reached Greenland
Eric the Red
142
Aztec conqueror
Hernando Cortez
143
First explorer to see the Pacific Ocean
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
144
Italian map maker/explorer who coined the term "New World"
Amerigo Vespucci
145
Invented Lightning rod
Benjamin Franklin
146
Discovered Structure of the atom
Neils Bohr
147
First to fly over the South Pole
Richard Byrd
148
Invented Rotary engine
Felix Wankel
149
Invented Eye chart
Snellen
150
Discovered Expanding Universe
Edwin Hubble
151
Invented Steel making process
Sir Henry Bessemer
152
First to go around the Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias
153
Invented Dynamo
Michael Faraday
154
Discovered Bacteria
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
155
Invented Neon lights
George Claude
156
Discovered Electromagnetic or radio waves
Heinrich Hertz
157
Discovered Cause of tuberculosis and cholera
Robert Koch
158
Scottish medical missionary to Africa
David Livingstone
159
First Englishman to reach Australia
William Dampier
160
Invented Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
161
Invented Alternator
Chrysler Corporation
