Inventors

Question 1

Beaufort, Francis

Answer 1

French. Beaufort Scale: wind force scale named after him

Question 2

Benz, Karl

Answer 2

German. the petrol-powered automobile

Question 3

Breners-Lee, Time and Cailliau

Answer 3

English. The World Wide Web

Question 4

Daimler, Gottlieb

Answer 4

German. The first high speed internal combustion engine

Question 5

Da Vinci, Leonardao

Answer 5

Italian. conceptualized a helicopter, painted the Mona Lisa, advanced anatomy

Question 6

Diesel, Rudolf

Answer 6

German. First internal combustion engine using fuel oil instead of gasoline

Question 7

Drais, Karl

Answer 7

German. Bicycle

Question 8

Englebart, Albert

Answer 8

American. The computer mouse

Question 9

Fermi, Enrico

Answer 9

Italian. Nuclear reactor

Question 10

Fleming, Alexander

Answer 10

English. Penicillin

Question 11

Galilei, Galileo

Answer 11

Italian. Improved the telescope. Physicist.

Question 12

Guttenberg, Johannes

Answer 12

German. Movable type, printing press

Question 13

Marconi, Guglielmo

Answer 13

Italian. Wireless Radio

Question 14

Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel

Answer 14

French. Hot air balloon

Question 15

Newton, Isaac

Answer 15

English. Reflecting telescope

Question 16

Nobel, Alfred

Answer 16

Swedish. Dynamite

Question 17

Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad

Answer 17

German. The X-Ray machine

Question 18

Stephenson, George

Answer 18

English. First steam locomotive

Question 19

Whitney, Eli

Answer 19

American. Interchangeable parts. Cotton gin