Ancient Greek inventor created the screw pump for raising water
Who is Archimedes?
Built the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City
Who is Michaelangelo Buonaratti
Invented the telegraph and Morse code
Who is Samuel Morse?
Introduced the moving assembly line in car production
Who is Henry Ford?
Engineered the first self-landing reusable orbital rocket
Who is Elon Musk?
Engineered the Dujiangyan Irrigation System in China, still functioning today
Who is Li Bing?
Renaissance artist and inventor drew blueprints for helicopters and submarines
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
Improved the steam engine to power factories and locomotives
Who is James Watt?
Developed alternating current (AC) technology
Who is Nikola Tesla?
This company pioneered fully autonomous ride-hailing vehicles operating without drivers
What is Waymo?
Designed the Step Pyramid of Djoser in ancient Egypt
Imhotep
Designed the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Who is Bonanno Pisano?
Laid the groundwork for electromagnetism and electrical induction
Who is Michael Faraday?
Achieved the first powered flight
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
This new class of computers uses qubits instead of bits to perform complex computations.
What are Quantum Computers?
Which Roman engineer is credited with designing aqueduct systems throughout the empire
Who is Frontinus?
This palace complex in Granada features advanced water channels, fountains, and courtyards for climate control.
What is Alhambra?
This canal, completed in 1869, dramatically shortened global shipping routes between Europe and Asia,
What is the Suez Canal?
Completed in 1936, this massive concrete dam on the Colorado River transformed water and power management in the American West.
What is the Hoover Dam?
These medical devices are created using additive manufacturing for customized limb replacements.
What are 3D-printed prosthetics?
The main material innovation of Roman construction that allowed them to build the Pantheon dome
What is roman concrete?
Mathematic system that is said to be created by the Moorish Empire
What is Algebra?
Recognized as the first “civil engineer”
Who is John Smeaton?
Invented in 1947 at Bell Labs, this tiny semiconductor device replaced vacuum tubes and launched modern electronics.
What is the transistor?
Designed the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa
Who is Adrian Smith?