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Who invented the steam engine?
Sydney Plesance
Thomas Newcomen
Byron Fortner
Albert Iger
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Who invented the drug penicillin?
Isaac Newton
Alexander Fleming
James Watt
Oscar Hammerstein
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What Scotsman invented the telephone?
Thomas A. Swift
Samuel Morse
James Hargreaves
Alexander Graham Bell
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What British agriculturalist invented the seed drill which rapidly improved the ease of planting?
Jethro Tull
Howard Lee
Aghanim Cotterson
Peter-Paul van Houten
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What man invented the first electronic television?
Hugh Davenport
Maximillian di Giallo
Philo Farnsworth
Jackson Vide
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What rival of Thomas Edison invented alternating current electricity?
Lukas Djikstra
William Randolph Hearst
Nikola Tesla
James Hargreaves
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Who invented vulcanized rubber and began a namesake tire company to sell his product?
Ronald P. Bridgestone
Curtis Centen
Marcus Firestone
Charles Goodyear
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Who invented the first modern traffic light?
Granville Woods
Argus Coleridge
Samuel Fulton
Garrett Morgan
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What Italian instrument designer invented the first piano?
Riccardo Islehart
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Finneo Moltasanti
Cebreste Colignio
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What is the name of the scientist often credited with inventing the first atomic bomb?
J. R. Oppenheimer
Kenton San Bernado
Hollison Isley
Alfred Doolittle
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What American founding father is known for inventing bifocals?
John Adams
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin
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What artist surprisingly invented the first steamboat?
Robert Fulton
Dimitri Poskevin
Ubert Dolliard
Timothy Depardieu
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What pair of brothers invented the first airplane?
The Wright Brothers
The Anderson Brothers
The Goodson Brothers
The Marwick Brothers
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Who invented the telegraph and the code of dots and dashes through which it communicated?
Gerard Bolton
Samuel Morse
Ivan Washington-Keyes
Ezekial Omundson
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What is the name of the eccentric nobleman who invented the analytical engine (the precursor to modern computers) with cooperation from Ada Lovelace?
Edmund Thurber
Alan Turing
Charles Babbage
Gordon Proudly
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What is the name of the Chinese courtier of the Han Dynasty who invented paper?
Zhuge Liang
Lu Bu
Gao Fei
Cai Lun
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Who invented the zipper?
Nolan Idreman
Sven Allynfyork
Piers Frostburn
Whitcomb Judson
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Who invented the first machine gun around the time of the American Civil War?
Lloyd Browning
Richard Gatling
Antonio Thompson
Richard Shiedlog
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What American inventor created the mechanical reaper to aid in the harvesting of crops?
Cyrus McCormick
Alexander Piers
Rowan Kors
Mikhalos Ironfort
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Portable refrigeration was invented by what man?
Peter Laurent
Francis Rafferty
Austin O'Brannigan
Frederick Jones
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The circular saw, and by extension the concept of a sawmill, was invented by what woman?
Lisa Baker
Simone Ries
Christie McCulloch
Tabitha Babbit
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What Swiss electrical engineer invented Velcro?
Filipe Gossard
George de Mestral
Ramon Kent
Sebastian Yiliers
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What famous oceanographer and television personality invented the aqualung?
Jacques Cousteau
Robert Fellner
Jack Hannah
Maurice Otterbein
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What person invented the light bulb and the phonograph among other devices?
Richard Firth
Thomas Douglas
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
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What is the name of the man who progressed the Industrial Revolution with his creation of the Spinning Jenny?
Oscar Corvington
Richard Locke
James Hargreaves
Albert Rockwell
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What French microbiologist invented a namesake process through which the bacteria in milk could be destroyed?
Gabriel de Fontneau
Alexi Patrice
Louis Pasteur
Robin Gersten
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What man invented the first practical automobile before his namesake business merged with Mercedes?
Karl Benz
Henry Ford
Enzo Ferrari
Ichiro Toyoda
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What confectioner invented airtight canning as a means of preserving food?
Rowan Clyde
Nicholas Appert
Vergus Mason
Cyrus Allaverdi
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What English computer scientist is often credited as the primary creator of the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners-Lee
Raymond Houtshire
Frank Gouvert
Ivan Felgrand
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Binomial Nomenclature was invented by what famous biologist?
Louis Ivaldi
Carl Linnaeus
Charles Darwin
Frederick Gregor
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