Made modifications to the Telescope so one can see further into space.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
100
This is the group of people who invented the cannon.
Who are the Chinese, or ancient Chinese?
100
Uses power to force more and more air into a storage tank, increasing the pressure
What is a compressor?
100
Decayed organic material used as a plant fertilizer (you can make this yourself!)
What is COMPOST? Remember it is chemical free
100
This gas is also called “Laughing Gas”
What is nitrous oxide?
200
Russian chemist who first developed the periodic table.
Who is Dimitri Mendeleev?
200
The piano was invented in this century.
What is the 17th Century?
200
Is a steam-powered version of a mechanical loom that combines threads to make cloth, or yarn into textiles
What is the POWER LOOM?
200
The invention of this was one of the first vegetarian movements in the USA. This was invented to offer a bland food source for a healthy lifestyle.
What is the Graham Cracker?
200
This is an analgesic (pain reliever) from the opium plant. This is what you'd want in surgery not to feel pain.
What is Morphine?
300
Swedish chemist who had a fascination with explosives, invented dynamite, and career was developing nitroglycerin and military weapons. Is most famous for starting the Peace Prize.
Who is Alfred Nobel?
300
Technical word meaning "Map Maker"
What is Cartographer?
300
This is the process where one blows a current of air through grain in order to remove the chaff.
What is Winnowing?
300
This was used as an alternative to a scythe to cut grass on sports grounds and gardens
What is the Lawn Mower?
300
The year 1608 AD is part of this century?
What is the 17th Century?
400
He is from Germany... he is the inventor of the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg (or just Gutenberg)?
400
This is the technical name for a map that represents a three dimensional Earth on a two dimensional surface, mainly used for navigation at sea.
What is Mercator Projection Map?
400
This is an electric cell, is a device that produces electricity
What is the BATTERY?
400
A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.
What is the Telegraph?
400
He invented the mechanical calculator at only 18 years old.
Who is Blaise Pascal, or Pascal?
500
He invented a map that represents a three dimensional Earth on a two dimensional surface, mainly used for navigation at sea.
Who is Gerardus Mercator (or just Mercator)?
500
He was the man who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, challenging Ptolemy’s model that the earth was the center of the celestial bodies.
Who is Nicolaus Coppernicus?
500
Considered first machine tool, a device for producing smooth and accurate holes
What is the boring machine?
500
A form of written language that are read with the finger tipes.
What is Braille?
500
He said, “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.”