Explorers Discoverers Inventors Flashcards
1
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Discovered Hydrostatics
A
Archimedes
2
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First to fly over the South Pole
A
Richard Byrd
3
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Discovered Theory of Relativity
A
Albert Einstein
4
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Discovered Expanding Universe
A
Edwin Hubble
5
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Discovered Moons of Jupiter
A
Galileo
6
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Discovered Pluto
A
Clyde Tombaugh
7
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Discovered Uranus
A
Sir William Herschel
8
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Discovered Neptune
A
Johann Galle
9
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Discovered Radium
A
Marie and Pierre Curie
10
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Discovered Fermentation
A
Louis Pasteur
11
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Discovered Penicillin
A
Alexander Fleming
12
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Discovered Photo-electric effect
A
Albert Einstein
13
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Discovered Polio vaccine
A
Jonas Salk
14
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Discovered oral polio vaccine
A
Albert Sabin
15
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Explored southern Louisiana Purchase territory
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Zebulon Pike
16
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Explored northern Louisiana Purchase territory
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Lewis and Clark
17
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Machu Picchu discoverer
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Hiram Bingham
18
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Scottish medical missionary to Africa
A
David Livingstone
19
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Venetian who explored Asia
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Marco Polo
20
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Discovered DNA
A
Francis Crick and James Watson
21
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Discovered Cause of Yellow Fever
A
Walter Reed
22
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Invented Adding machine
A
Blaise Pascal
23
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Invented AC generator
A
Nicoli Tesla
24
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Discovered Structure of the atom
A
Neils Bohr
25
Discovered Nucleus of the atom
Ernest Rutherford
26
Discovered Rabies vaccine
Louis Pasteur
27
Discovered Electrical resistance laws
George Ohm
28
Discovered Electromagnetic or radio waves
Heinrich Hertz
29
Discovered X-Ray imaging
Wilhelm Roentgen
30
Discovered Laws of genetics
Gregor Mendel
31
First to fly over the North Pole
Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett
32
Discovered Cure for smallpox
Edward Jenner
33
Discovered Cause of syphilis
August von Wassermann
34
Discovered Antibodies
Louis Pasteur
35
Discovered Cause of tuberculosis and cholera
Robert Koch
36
Discovered Speech center of the brain
Paul Broca
37
Discovered Oxygen
Joseph Priestly
38
Discovered Bacteria
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
39
Discovered Cells
Robert Hooke
40
Discovered Insulin
Banting and Best
41
Incan Conqueror and explorer of Peru
Francisco Pizarro
42
British explorer of Antarctic
James Ross
43
Frenchman who explored the southern Mississippi River
Sieur de la Salle
44
Portuguese discoverer of California
Juan Cabrillo
45
Portuguese discoverer of Brazil
Pedro Cabral
46
Frenchman who founded Montreal and chartered St. Lawrence River
Jacques Cartier
47
John Cabot's son who explored Rio de la Plata
Sebastian Cabot
48
Italian explorer who discovered Newfoundland
John Cabot
49
First to sail into New York harbor
Giovanni da Verrazano
50
Explorer of American southwest; searched for 7 cities of Cibola
Francisco de Coronado
51
Spaniard who discovered the Mississippi River
Hernando de Soto
52
Aztec conqueror
Hernando Cortez
53
First explorer to see the Pacific Ocean
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
54
Portuguese explorer and first to reach India
Vasco de Gama
55
Italian map maker/explorer who coined the term "New World"
Amerigo Vespucci
56
Discoverer of the New World
Christopher Columbus
57
First to go around the Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias
58
Norse explorer of northeast North America - Eric the Red's son
Leif Erickson
59
Norse explorer who first reached Greenland
Eric the Red
60
First to set foot on U.S. mainland (Florida)
Ponce de Leon
61
First Englishman to reach Australia
William Dampier
62
Competitor of Amundsen - died after reaching the South Pole
Robert Scott
63
First to reach South Pole - 1911
Roald Amundsen
64
First to reach North Pole - 1909
Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
65
Speke's colleague - spoke 29 languages
Sir Richard Burton
66
Englishman who discovered source of the Nile (disputed)
John Speke
67
Englishman who discovered world's 5th largest island
William Baffin
68
Discovered the Great Salt Lake
Jim Bridger
69
Frenchmen who explored the length of Mississippi River
Marquette and Joliet
70
Danish explorer of Alaska and namesake strait
Vitus Bering
71
Invented Airplane
Wright brothers
72
Englishman who discovered Australia and Hawaii
James Cook
73
Norwegian who first navigated Northwest passage
Roald Amundsen
74
Dutchman who explored the Pacific
Abel Tasman
75
First Englishman to sail around the world
Sir Francis Drake
76
First person given credit for sailing around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
77
Explorer of the Gambia and Niger Rivers
Mungo Park
78
German naturalist who explored the Orinoco
Friedrich Humboldt
79
The Father of New France - founded Quebec
Samuel de Champlain
80
Explorer of northwest Canada
Alexander Mackenzie
81
Invented Movable type
Johann Gutenberg
82
Invented Air brakes
George Westinghouse
83
Invented Revolver
Samuel Colt
84
Invented Refrigerator car
Gustavis Swift
85
Invented Railroad sleeping car
George Pullman
86
Invented Photographic film
George Eastman
87
Invented Phonograph
Thomas Edison
88
Invented Paper
Cai Lun
89
Invented Safety razor
King Gillette
90
Invented Neon lights
George Claude
91
Invented Scissors
Leonardo da Vinci
92
Invented Motion picture camera
Lumiere brothers
93
Invented Motion picture machine
Thomas Edison
94
Invented Mimeograph
A.B. Dick
95
Invented Microscope (electron)
Vladimir Zworykin
96
Invented Microscope (compound)
Zacharias Janssen
97
Invented Mechanical grain reaper
Cyrus McCormick
98
Invented Magnifying glass
Roger Bacon
99
Invented Machine Gun
Richard Gatling
100
Invented Outboard engine
Ole Evinrude
101
Invented Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
102
Invented Wireless
Guglielmo Marconi
103
Invented Vulcanized rubber
Charles Goodyear
104
Invented Transistor
Bell Telephone Labs
105
Invented Thermometer (mercury)
Gabriel Fahrenheit
106
Invented Thermometer (open column)
Galileo
107
Invented Television iconoscope
Vladimir Zworykin
108
Invented Telescope (reflecting)
Sir Isaac Newton
109
Invented Rotary engine
Felix Wankel
110
Invented Telescope
Hans Lippershey
111
Invented Lightning rod
Benjamin Franklin
112
Invented Telegraph
Samuel Morse
113
Invented Submachine gun
John Thompson
114
Invented Storage battery
Alessandro Volta
115
Invented Steel making process
Sir Henry Bessemer
116
Invented Steam engine
James Watt
117
Invented Spark plug
Albert Champion
118
Invented Sewing machine
Elias Howe
119
Invented Screw
Archimedes
120
Invented Telescope (astronomical)
Galileo
121
Invented Contact lenses
Frick
122
Invented Electric toaster
General Electric Labs
123
Invented Earthquake intensity device
Charles Richter
124
Invented Dynamo
Michael Faraday
125
Invented Dynamite
Alfred Nobel
126
Invented Dirigible airship
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
127
Invented Cylinder locks
Linus Yale
128
Invented Cyclotron
Ernest O. Laurence
129
Invented Loom
Joseph Marie Jacquard
130
Invented Compression-ignition engine
Rudolf Diesel
131
Invented Electric coil
Stanley
132
Invented Calculus
Sir Isaac Newton
133
Invented Blind reading system
Louis Braille
134
Invented Bifocal lens
Benjamin Franklin
135
Invented Barometer
Evangelistra Torricelli
136
Invented Artificial heart
Robert Jarvik
137
Invented Aqua-lung
Jacques Cousteau
138
Invented Alternator
Chrysler Corporation
139
Invented Zipper
Whitcomb Judson
140
Invented Computer concept
Charles Babbage
141
Invented Geometry
Euclid
142
Invented Air conditioner
Willis Carrier
143
Invented Kodak camera (hand-held)
George Eastman
144
Invented IQ test
Alfret Binet
145
Invented Instant (Polaroid) camera
Edwin Land
146
Invented Ink blot test
Herman Rorschach
147
Invented Hybrid popcorn
Orville Redenbacher
148
Invented helicopter (single rotor)
Igor Sikorsky
149
Invented Hamburger
Salisbury
150
Invented Electric lamp
Thomas Edison
151
Invented Grape Juice
Thomas Welch
152
Invented Electric razor
Jacob Schick
153
Invented Gas burner
Robert Bunsen
154
Invented Food freezing
Clarence Birdseye
155
Invented Fountain pen
Lewis Waterman
156
Invented Eye chart
Snellen
157
Invented English derby hat
Bowler
158
Invented Elevator
Elisha Otis
159
Invented Electric motor
Michael Faraday
160
Invented Liquid-fueled rocket
Robert Goddard
161
Invented Gyroscope
Leon Foucault
