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Inventors
Scholar Bowl Practice
Question | Answer |
---|---|
bifocals and lightning rod | Ben Franklin |
Radio | Marconi |
Thermometer | Farenheit |
light bulb and phonograph | Thomas Edison |
Telegraph | Samuel Morse |
Automobile (gas powered) | Karl Benz |
airplane | The Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) |
battery | Volta |
induction motor | Tesla |
dynamite | Alfred Nobel |
elevator (with safety brake) | Otis |
movable-type printing press | Johannes Gutenberg |
telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
television | Baird |
calculator | Pascal |
air conditioner | Carrier |
rocket engine | Robert Goddard |
machine gun | Gatling |
nylon | Carothers |
safety razor | Gillette |
electric razor | Schick |
revolver | Sam Colt |
vulcanized rubber | Goodyear |
cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
reflecting telescope | Sir Issac Newton |
blue jeans | Levi Strauss |
tactile writing system for the blind | Louis Braille |
sewing machine | Elias Howe |
steamboat | Robert Fulton |
steel plow | John Deere |
reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
assembly line for automobiles | Henry Ford |
quick freeze method | Clarence Birdseye |
Apple, inc. | Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak |
Microsoft | Bill Gates |