Famous inventions
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- 1
In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered which revolutionary antibiotic after finding mold contaminating a petri dish of bacteria?
- Penicillin
- Streptomycin
- Tetracycline
- Amoxicillin
- 2
Which Swedish chemist invented dynamite in 1867 by combining nitroglycerin with kieselguhr?
- Alfred Nobel
- Svante Arrhenius
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele
- 3
Which German craftsman is credited with introducing movable type printing to Europe around 1440?
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Albrecht Dürer
- Martin Luther
- Peter Schöffer
- 4
Who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN?
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Vint Cerf
- Marc Andreessen
- Linus Torvalds
- 5
Who is officially credited with receiving the first US patent for the practical telephone in 1876?
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Thomas Edison
- Nikola Tesla
- Guglielmo Marconi
- 6
Near which town did Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first controlled, sustained powered airplane flight in December 1903?
- Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
- Dayton, Ohio
- Savannah, Georgia
- Richmond, Virginia
- 7
What kitchen appliance was developed after engineer Percy Spencer noticed a magnetron had melted a candy bar in his pocket in 1945?
- Microwave oven
- Electric toaster
- Induction cooktop
- Convection oven
- 8
Who developed the vulcanization process in 1839, transforming natural rubber into a stable, durable material?
- Charles Goodyear
- Thomas Hancock
- John Boyd Dunlop
- Harvey Firestone
- 9
Who invented the modern safety pin in 1849 and sold the patent rights for $400 to pay off a $15 debt?
- Walter Hunt
- Elias Howe
- Isaac Singer
- Linus Yale Jr.
- 10
In what year did the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X become the first commercially available handheld cellular mobile phone?
- 11
In what year did Alessandro Volta invent the voltaic pile, recognized as the world's first electrical battery?
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