Male Inventors
Samuel F.B. Morse is best known for developing the electric telegraph, but can you take a guess for what other system of communication this man is responsible?
Morse Code
Known as one of the worlds greatest scientific minds of all time, this Madame is the only person to ever receive the Nobel Prize in two different sciences. One of these awards was for her work with radioactivity.
What was her name?
Marie Curie
Later creating Toilet Paper, what large country is actually the little known creator of the flushing toilet?
China!
Although many ancient civilizations had toilet facilities, China had flushing capabilities long before anyone else. It makes sense that they would later create the ever popular TP decades later!
John Logie Baird is remembered as the inventor of
The mechanical television
The mechanical pencil
The mechanical clock
mechanical television
Most often known for being the writer of U.S. Declaration of Independence, this man also created a 'swivel chair' and the dumbwaiter system....but what was his name?
Thomas Jefferson
Do you know the name Bette Nesmith Graham? While working as a secretary, her homemade typewriter correction fluid became a bug hit and remains so today...but what do we know it by now?
Liquid Paper
What is the invention that is often attributed to George Washington Carver that he, in fact, did not come up with?
Peanut Butter
Benjamin Franklin is not known for inventing the.....
Lightning rod
The iron furnace stove
The washing machine
The washing machine
What Founding Father came up with the Bifocals?
Benjamin Franklin
You may have played this game many times and never known that it was first created by a woman named Elizabeth Magie.
Lizzie, as she was known, first created a game she called 'The Landlord's Game' in 1904, only to later have the idea stolen by a man who sold it to the Parker Brothers. What is this popular game now known as?
Monopoly
This man has a renowned rivalry with another 'Bright' inventor, and is credited with improving both fluorescent and neon lights, but can you remember the name of the man who now has an electric car as a namesake?
Nikola Tesla
James Naismith was a Canadian physical education instructor who invented
Cricket
Basketball
Rugby
Basketball
Who was the inventor of the incandescent light bulb?
Thomas Edison
Patsy O’Connell Sherman discovered an insoluble, stain-proof, and waterproof polymer while in the lab attempting to develop a new type of rubber for jet fuel lines. Do you know what we call it today?
Scotchgard
We often give Henry Ford the credit for the first automobile, but one had already been manufactured by a German inventor 17 years prior. Still the name of a fancy car company today, can you give me the name of this inventor?
Karl Benz {founder of Mercedes-Benz}
Known for his improvements on the vacuum cleaner, Sir James Dyson is an inventor and industrial designer from what country?
Indonesia
England
USA
England
Johannes Gutenberg lived from 1400-1468, but what is he best known for inventing?
Barbie
Nowadays, potato chips can practically be found in every shop, grocery store and eatery! But it wasn't always so! Do you know how George Crum, a chef at the Moon Lake Lodge Resort in Saratoga Lake, New York, in 1953 accidentally created the favorite snack food?
Hedy Lamarr made significant contributions to radio and technology and systems. During World War II, she invented a radio-guidance system for torpedoes. The frequency-hopping technology has been used to develop Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. But what was she also known for?
Her skills as a world class chef
Her medical skills as a surgeon
Her acting skills as a Hollywood Starlet
Hedy Lamarr is often recognized as an early Hollywood starlet, with film credits such as "Algiers" and "Boom Town."