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100
This renaissance-age Italian was the first to realize and harness the pendulum.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
100
This was originally invented by Edward Jenner to treat smallpox.
What is the vaccination?
100
These brothers invented a flying device that stayed in the air for seven seconds.
Who are Wilbur and Oriville Wright?
100
Benjamin Franklin was known for flying a kite in a storm to invent this.
What is the lightning rod?
100
John Starley created this using spokes, wheels, and chains.
What is the bicycle?
200
This cereal was invented when moldy flakes went through rollers.
What are Toasted Corn Flakes?
200
Alexander Fleming came up with this idea, but Howard Florey moved with it.
What are antibiotics?
200
This was the first machine capable of lifting people above the ground.
What is the hot-air balloon?
200
Luigi Galvini used frog legs as conductors to invent this.
What is the battery?
200
Luis Daguerre invented photographs with this element.
What is mercury?
300
Hubert Booth nearly suffocated trying to invent this common object.
What is a vacuum cleaner?
300
This invention is famous for solving crimes.
What is DNA fingerprinting?
300
Elisha Otis put his life at risk to showcase this standard invention.
What is the safety elevator?
300
Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone because this man was too poor.
Who is Antonio Meucci?
300
This first video game was the precursor to "Asteroids".
What is "Space Wars"?
400
This object was the first to go through a microwave for food related reasons.
What is an egg?
400
This man was the first to sequence the cancer gene.
Who is Paul Nurse?
400
This machine allowed farmers to plant in fields with a lot of stumps.
What is the stump-jump plow?
400
Nikola Tesla originally found these, but this man was remembered for using radio waves.
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
400
The internet was invented by Tim Burners Lee under this name.
What is ARPNET?
500
This man accidentally created frozen food on a trip to Antarctica.
Who is Clarence Birdseye.
500
This drug was originally a mold left in petri dish.
What is an antibiotic?
500
Christopher Cockerell invented this, but kept it a government secret.
What is the hovercraft?
500
Almon Strowger's job as an undertaker led to this invention.
What is the telephone exchange?
500
This escaped slave's invention triggered a popular saying.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
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