Typewriter
Used to make letter print on paper by hand
What is a typewriter?
This useful tool helps thousands every day look up definitions to English words
What is the English Dictionary?
This object is used to protect buildings from lightning strikes
What are lightning rods?
This handy invention is used to wash away human waste
What is the flush toilet?
This crunchy snack are the number one culprit of weight gain
What are potato chips?
This tragic event destroyed the working model provided for the typewriter patent
What is the 1836 Patent Office fire?
This man invented the first English Dictionary
Who is Samuel Johnson?
If lightning hits the rod, it will preferentially strike the rod and be conducted to this via the wire
What is the ground?
This man was the first person to patent the design of a flush toilet
Who is Alexander Cummings?
This clever man created the potato chip around 1853
Who is George Crum?
This man invented the first typewriter
Who is William Burt?
It was in this year that Samuel Johnson was contracted to write a dictionary
When is 1746?
This founding father invented the lighting rod
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
When is 1775?
The creation of the potato chip was a what
What is an accident?
The typewriter's dimensions were this
True or False: Samuel Johnson's dictionary was the first dictionary of the English language ever written
What is False
The lighting rod requires a connection to what to perform its protective function
What is the earth?
The flush toilet had a sliding valve where
George Crum never managed to do what with his invention
What is obtain a patent?
This is how the typewriter mechanically worked
A rotating level was depressed so that an inked letter made contact with paper
This piece of text is considered to be one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship ever
What is Samuel Johnson's rendition of the English Dictionary?
Name one other thing Benjamin Franklin invented
What are bifocals, the glass harmonica, hand paddles, the franklin stove, or the electrostatic machine
The flush toilet became a widely used invention around this time period
When are the mid-1900s?
The potato chip was originally supposed to do this when George Crum made it
What is annoy his customer?