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Inventions and Discoveries

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  1. Which inventor is credited with patenting the first practical telephone?

    • Alexander Graham Bell
    • Thomas Edison
    • Nikola Tesla
    • Guglielmo Marconi
  2. Who is famous for developing the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb?

    • Thomas Edison
    • Benjamin Franklin
    • Michael Faraday
    • James Watt
  3. Which German inventor introduced the movable-type printing press to Europe around 1440?

    • Johannes Gutenberg
    • Martin Luther
    • Karl Benz
    • Rudolf Diesel
  4. The code of dots and dashes used in early telegraphy is named after which inventor?

    • Samuel Morse
    • Alexander Graham Bell
    • Charles Babbage
    • Joseph Henry
  5. Which scientist is best known for formulating the law of universal gravitation?

    • Isaac Newton
    • Galileo Galilei
    • Albert Einstein
    • Johannes Kepler
  6. Which Scottish scientist discovered penicillin in 1928?

    • Alexander Fleming
    • Louis Pasteur
    • Joseph Lister
    • Edward Jenner
  7. Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989?

    • Tim Berners-Lee
    • Bill Gates
    • Steve Jobs
    • Vint Cerf
  8. The Wright brothers are famous for achieving what historic first in 1903?

    • The first powered airplane flight
    • The first hot-air balloon ascent
    • The first helicopter flight
    • The first jet engine
  9. Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.

    • True
    • False
  10. Galileo Galilei used a telescope to observe the moons of Jupiter.

    • True
    • False
  11. The printing press was invented in ancient Rome.

    • True
    • False
  12. Alfred Nobel invented the explosive ___ in 1867.

  13. In 1886, the German engineer Karl ___ patented what is often called the first practical automobile.