INVENTORS
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Inventors invented many gadgets made of objects which at the time they lived were not available. We see them in use and use them nowadays in our lives every day.
Daily Life 1. Who invented the bicycle?
1. Who invented the bicycle?
Orville Wright
Gardner Martin
J.F. Tretz
Kirkpatrick Macmillan
2. Who invented the polaroid camera?
Edwin H. Land
Louis Daguerre
Joseph Niepce
W.H.F. Talbot
3. Who invented the air-pump?
Otto von Guericke
John Dalton
Evangelista Torricelli
Hero of Alexandria
4. Who invented the ball point pen?
Lewis E. Waterman
John Walker
Charles Babbage
Lasalo Biro
5. Who invented the telephone exchange?
Thomas Edison
Almon Strowger
Nicola Tesla
Alexander G. Bell
6. Who invented the tape recorder?
J.C. Bose
John Ambrose
A. Poniatoff
Valdemar Poulsen
7. Who invented the refrigerator?
John Dewer
Heike Kammerlingh-Onnes
John Kay
Karl von Unde
8. Who invented the motor cycle?
Rudolf Diesel
Henry Ford
Gottlieb Daimler
Carl Benz
9. Who invented the thermostat?
William Henry
Cornelius Drebbel
James Watt
10. Who invented the hypodermic syringe or injection?
Archimedes
Leonardo da Vinci
Ctesibius
Blaise Pascal
11. Who invented the differential, a chain of gears, that transmits movement?
Geminus of Rhodes
Thales of Miletus
Hypatia of Alexandria
12. Who invented the neon light?
J.J.Thompson
William Crookes
Georges Claude
William Roentgen
13. Who invented the glider?
Wilbur Wright
George Cayley
14. Who invented the cylinder lock?
George Westinghouse
Samuel Slater
Christopher Sholes
Linus Yale
15. Who invented the bifocal spectacles?
Hans Lippershey
Benjamin Franklin
Isaac Newton
William Nicholson
16. Who invented the xerox machine?
Nikolaus Otto
William Siemens
Thomas Bell
Chester Carlson
Instruments And Devices 17. Who invented the barometer?
17. Who invented the barometer?
Edme Mariotte
Evangeltsta Torricelli
Robert Hooke
Galileo Galilei
18. Who invented the rain gauge?
Richard Towneley
Pierre de Fermat
19. Who invented the seismograph?
Charles F. Richter
Walter H. Munk
Varahamihira
Zhang Heng
20. Who invented the clinical thermometer?
Gelileo Galilei
Santario Santario
Christian Huygens
21. Who invented the coronagraph for studying the atmosphere of the sun?
John Harrison
Bernard F. Lyot
John Evershed
Anders Angstrom
22. Who invented the 'cyclotron'?
John Cockcroft
E.T.S. Walton
Ernest O. Lawrence
George Gamov
23. Who invented the stethoscope?
William Harvey
Rene Laennec
Dorothea Erxleben
Richard Doll
24. Who invented the bolometer for measuring the energy of radiation at different wavelengths?
Samuel Langley
Max Planck
Ludwig Boltzmann
James Joule
25. Who invented the microtome?
Vesalius
Wilhelm His
Galen
26. Who invented the bubble chamber for observing elementary particles?
C.T.R. Wilson
E.O. Lawrence
Harriet Brooks
Donald A. Glaser
27. Who invented a device to count the incoming charged nuclear particles?
Hans Geiger
W Muller
J.J. Thomson
Ernst Rutherford
28. Who invented 'mass spectrograph' which separated atoms of similar mass and measured these masses accurately?
Frederic Soddy
Lee De Forest
Charles Coulomb
Francis William Aston
29. Who invented the sonar for detecting U-boats by using sound waves?
Paul Langevin
Pierre Curie
Charles Parsons
30. Who invented the X-ray tomographic body scanner?
Willem Einthoven
Godfrey N. Hounsfield
Karl F. Braun
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31. Who invented the electrical transformer?
Hans Christian Oersted
Joseph Henry
Michael Faraday
John Daniell
Chemicals 32. Who invented margarine, a substitute fof butter?
32. Who invented margarine, a substitute fof butter?
Hippolyte Megemouries
Nicolas Appert
33. Who invented the electrical storage battery?
Alexandro Volta
Georges Leclanche
Gaston Plant
34. Who is the inventor of chemical fertilizer?
J.R. Glauber
John Woodward
Justus von Liebig
Jean Baptiste van Helmont
35. Who invented the matchstick?
Joseph Priestley
John Ellis
Joseph Black
36. Who invented chewing gum?
Thomas Adams
John Colgan
Frank Fleer
John B. Curtis
37. Who invented the 'gap mantle' of gas lights?
Carl Auer
Robert Bunsen
Thomas Seebeck
Stephen Gray
38. Who invented soda water or carbonated drink?
Henry Cavendish
Robert Boyle
39. Who invented the radiocarbon dating technique?
Serge Korff
Willard F. Libby
William Ramsay
40. Who invented the pH scale for measuring acidity of a solution?
Francois Raoult
Soren Sorensen
Edward Frankland