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Inventors
Scholar Bowl Practice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bifocals and lightning rod | Ben Franklin |
| Radio | Marconi |
| Thermometer | Fahrenheit |
| 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 |
| Polio Vaccine | Jonas Salk |
| Penicillin (the first antibiotic) | Alexander Fleming |
| Founded psychoanalysis, a theory of the mind and a method of treating mental illness. Created the theories of id, ego, and super-ego | Sigmund Freud |
| Known for developing the concept of the "collective unconscious" as well as theories on psychological types, including introversion and extraversion. | Carl Yung |