Explorers Discoverers Inventors Flashcards by Bob Nickles

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Invented Artificial heart

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Robert Jarvik

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Invented Movable type

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Johann Gutenberg

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Invented Safety razor

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King Gillette

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Englishman who discovered Australia and Hawaii

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James Cook

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Invented Elevator

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Elisha Otis

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Invented Aqua-lung

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Jacques Cousteau

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Invented Airplane

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Wright brothers

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Invented Revolver

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Samuel Colt

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Invented Air conditioner

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Willis Carrier

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Invented Hamburger

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Salisbury

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Invented Dynamite

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Alfred Nobel

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Invented Food freezing

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Clarence Birdseye

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Explored northern Louisiana Purchase territory

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Lewis and Clark

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Invented Compression-ignition engine

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Rudolf Diesel

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Invented Thermometer (open column)

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Galileo

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Invented Cylinder locks

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Linus Yale

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Invented Machine Gun

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Richard Gatling

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Invented Phonograph

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Thomas Edison

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Spaniard who discovered the Mississippi River

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Hernando de Soto

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Invented Submachine gun

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John Thompson

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Discovered Electrical resistance laws

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George Ohm

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Invented Thermometer (mercury)

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Gabriel Fahrenheit

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First to set foot on U.S. mainland (Florida)

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Ponce de Leon

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Invented Motion picture machine

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Thomas Edison

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Invented Calculus

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Sir Isaac Newton

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Invented Wireless

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Guglielmo Marconi

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Invented Scissors

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Discovered Theory of Relativity

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Albert Einstein

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Invented Electric razor

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Jacob Schick

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Invented Bifocal lens

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Benjamin Franklin

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Discovered Cause of Yellow Fever

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Walter Reed

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Invented Telegraph

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Samuel Morse

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Invented Kodak camera (hand-held)

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George Eastman

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Invented Adding machine

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Blaise Pascal

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Invented Railroad sleeping car

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George Pullman

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Venetian who explored Asia

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Marco Polo

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Invented Hybrid popcorn

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Orville Redenbacher

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Discovered Rabies vaccine

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Louis Pasteur

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Invented Transistor

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Bell Telephone Labs

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Invented Steam engine

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James Watt

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Invented Telescope (astronomical)

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Galileo

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Invented Electric lamp

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Thomas Edison

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First to reach North Pole - 1909

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Robert Peary and Matthew Henson

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Invented Computer concept

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Charles Babbage

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First person given credit for sailing around the world

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Explorer of American southwest; searched for 7 cities of Cibola

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Francisco de Coronado

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Invented Earthquake intensity device

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Charles Richter

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Invented Vulcanized rubber

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Charles Goodyear

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Invented AC generator

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Nicoli Tesla

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Discovered Antibodies

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Louis Pasteur

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Competitor of Amundsen - died after reaching the South Pole

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Robert Scott

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Invented Blind reading system

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Louis Braille

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Invented Instant (Polaroid) camera

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Edwin Land

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Discoverer of the New World

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Christopher Columbus

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Invented Screw

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Archimedes

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Norse explorer who first reached Greenland

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Eric the Red

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Aztec conqueror

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Hernando Cortez

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First explorer to see the Pacific Ocean

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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Italian map maker/explorer who coined the term “New World”

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Invented Lightning rod

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Benjamin Franklin

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Discovered Expanding Universe

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Edwin Hubble

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Invented Steel making process

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Sir Henry Bessemer

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Invented Telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Invented Alternator

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Chrysler Corporation