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Inventions

The document presents a quiz with multiple-choice questions about various inventions and their inventors. It covers a range of topics, including patents for devices like the 'Brown Box' and the computer mouse, as well as historical figures such as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. The quiz aims to test knowledge on the origins of significant inventions and innovations.

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Inventions

The document presents a quiz with multiple-choice questions about various inventions and their inventors. It covers a range of topics, including patents for devices like the 'Brown Box' and the computer mouse, as well as historical figures such as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. The quiz aims to test knowledge on the origins of significant inventions and innovations.

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Can You Guess the Invention Based on These Patent Illustrations?

Q1:Hampshire College students Matt Capozzi and Nathan Connolly


designed this apparatus, which is:

an electric rocking chair


a sit-on snowboard for disabled people
a hydraulic bouncy chair for babies
a spring-loaded ski-boot release
Q2:Renowned inventor Ralph Baer received a patent in 1973 for this
invention, coined the “Brown Box.” What new global pastime did this device
launch?

microwave dinners
television
e-mail
video games
Q3:Not surprisingly, a mother invented this product, patented in 1951. What
is it?

perforated paper towels


a corset
a waterproof diaper wrap
a scrubber sponge
Q4:Engineer Douglas Engelbart revolutionized the computer industry with
this device. What is it?
a printer
a computer mouse
“soft type” keys, which are much quieter than previous typewriter
keyboards
a power button
Q5This item was important for bicycle safety in the 1880s. What is it?

a horn
a lamp
a camera
a lock

Q6Gustav W. Schumacher patented this device in 1876 to measure


what?

time
angles
temperature
gravity
Question 7: When was the mobile phone invented?
1968
1982
1974
1979
Question 8: Which inventor introduced the telephone, in 1876?
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Michael Faraday
Thomas Watson
Question 9Who invented X rays?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Wilhelm Roentgen
Pierre Curie
Michael Faraday
Question 10 Which inventor discovered penicillin?
Benjamin Franklin
Francis Crick
Alexander Fleming
Louis Pasteur
Question 11Who developed the first modern automobile?
Henry Ford
Karl Benz
Nils Bohlin
Robert Fulton
Question 12 Which of the following innovations was NOT invented by
Thomas Edison?
The phonograph
The longlasting lightbulb
The Kinetoscope
The ballpoint pen

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