Inventions Flashcards by B. Unknown

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Dynamite

A

Alfred Nobel

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Calculator

A

Blaise Pascal

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AC

A

Willis Carrier

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Barometer

(Used to measure atmospheric pressure)

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Evangelista Torricelli

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Bicycle

A

Kirkpatrick Macmillan

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Crescograph (measures growth in plants)

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Jagdish Chandra Bose

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Cotton gin (machine in cotton production)

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Eli Whitney

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Cinemascope (lens)

A

Henri Chretien

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Diesel Engine

A

Rudolf Diesel

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Electro magnet

A

William Sturgeon

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Radioactivity

A

Discovered by Henri Becquerel
Coined by Marie Curie

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FM radio

A

Edwin Howard Armstrong

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Electric current and batteries

A

Alessandro Volta

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Modern sewing machine

A

Elias Howe

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Electric generator

A

Michael Faraday

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Fountain pen

A

Lewis Waterman

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Wireless telegraph

A

Guglielmo Marconi

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Steam engine

A

1st Thomas Newcomen
Improved designs: James Watt

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Steam boat

A

Robert Fuelton

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Oxygen

A

Joseph Priestley

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Telephone

A

Alexander Graham Bell

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Thermoscope

A

Galileo Galilei

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First thermometer

A

Santorio Santorio

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First mercury thermometer

A

Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Electron

A

J J Thomson

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Television

A

John Baird

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Xray

A

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

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Printing press

A

Johannes Gutenberg

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First permanent photograph

A

Nicephore Niepce

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First practical process of photography

A

Louis Daguerre

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First operational submarine

A

Cornelius van Drebbel

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Reflecting telescope

A

Isaac Newton

Q

Single lens microscope

A

Anthony van Leeuwenhoek

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Pressure cooker

A

Denis Papin

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First Vaccination

A

Edward Jenner (for small pox)

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Stethoscope

A

Rene Laennec

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Braille writing system

A

Louis Braille

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Pasteurization

A

Louis Pasteur

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Phonograph/electric lightbulb

A

Thomas Edison

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Alternating Current electric motor

A

Nikola Tesla

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Carbon filament lightbulb

A

Lewis Latimer

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Airplane

A

Wilbur and Orville Wright

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Automobile Assembly line

A

Henry Ford

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Penicillin

A

Alexander Fleming

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Helicopter

A

Igor Sikorsky

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Nuclear reactor

A

Enrico Fermi

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Atomic bomb

A

J Robert Oppenheimer plus others on the Manhattan project

Q

Polio vaccine

A

Jonas Salk

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Supercomputer

A

Seymour Cray

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Mobile cellphone

A

Martin Cooper

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DNA sequencing

A

Frederick Sanger

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World wide web

A

Tim Berners-Lee

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Google

A

Sergey Brin, Larry Page

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Twitter

A

Jack Dorsey, Christopher Stone, Evan Williams