INVENTIONS
A powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces
What is an airplane?
Who is Thomas Edison?
Tripp's real name
Who is Robert Randall Bagwell III?
The way to make automobiles become mainstream to the public
What is the assembly line?
Structures built between 2600 BC and 2500 BC in Desserts
What are the Pyramids?
Unlike direct current, which flows in only one direction, this electrical system reverses its flow dozens of times per second to efficiently travel long distances
What is an Alternating Current?
These brothers designed the first ever working airplane
Who are the Wright brothers?
Henry's go to dance move
What is the foot dab?
Won 3 piston cups in his first 3 seasons as a racer
Who is Doc Hudson or the Hudson Hornet?
This iconic 1,063-foot iron lattice tower was built as the entrance arch for the 1889 World's Fair in Paris.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
Joseph B Strauss created this long and famous bridge
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
This Renaissance man’s notebooks contained detailed sketches for a "flying machine" and an armored tank.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
Tripp's Mom's Job
What is the front office lady?
The King's Real Name
Who is Strip Weathers?
The first type of engineering
What is Civil Engineering?
Spacecraft propulsion systems that store fuel and an oxidizer as liquids in separate tanks, pumping them into a combustion chamber to produce thrust
What are liquid fuel rockets?
"No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions" is the quote of this famous inventor
Who is Charles Proteus Steinmetz?
To improve safety in 1959, Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin developed the "three-point" version of this device and allowed other manufacturers to use the patent for free.
What is the seatbelt?
Completed in 1914, this 50-mile waterway revolutionized global trade by connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, though its construction cost over 20,000 lives during the initial French attempt.
What is the Panama Canal?
An early sound-reproducing machine that used cylinders to record as well as reproduce sound
What is a phonograph?
Credited for inventing the term BUG
Who is Grace Murray Hopper?
What was Henry and Tripps first class ever together?
Lightning McQueen Dream color to race in
What is Dinoco Blue?
First historically documented by name in ancient Egypt, this architect and "father of engineering" designed the Step Pyramid of Djoser.
Who is Imhotep?