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

Electron

J J Thomson

Television

John Baird

Xray

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

Printing press

Johannes Gutenberg

First permanent photograph

Nicephore Niepce

First practical process of photography

Louis Daguerre

First operational submarine

Cornelius van Drebbel

Reflecting telescope

Isaac Newton

Single lens microscope

Anthony van Leeuwenhoek

Pressure cooker

Denis Papin

First Vaccination

Edward Jenner (for small pox)

Stethoscope

Rene Laennec

Braille writing system

Louis Braille

Pasteurization

Louis Pasteur

Phonograph/electric lightbulb

Thomas Edison

Alternating Current electric motor

Nikola Tesla

Carbon filament lightbulb

Lewis Latimer

Airplane

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Automobile Assembly line

Henry Ford

Penicillin

Alexander Fleming

Helicopter

Igor Sikorsky

Nuclear reactor

Enrico Fermi

Atomic bomb

J Robert Oppenheimer plus others on the Manhattan project

Polio vaccine

Jonas Salk

Supercomputer

Seymour Cray

Mobile cellphone

Martin Cooper

DNA sequencing

Frederick Sanger

World wide web

Tim Berners-Lee

Google

Sergey Brin, Larry Page

Twitter

Jack Dorsey, Christopher Stone, Evan Williams