Events in Science
The name of the competition between two countries that impacted JFK's decision to establish the goal that America would put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960’s.
What is the Cold War?
American theoretical physicist who was the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory.
Who J. Robert Oppenheimer?
American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
Who are the Wright brothers?
This conflict, often referred to as the "First Industrial War," featured innovations such as tanks, machine guns, and chemical warfare on a large scale.
What is WWI?
Completed in 1964, it ran from Tokyo to Osaka, shortening the travel time between the two biggest cities in Japan from seven hours to three
What is the Bullet Train?
The name of the person who first walked on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
A German scientist who came to America in 1933 but decided to not go back after the rise of Hitler.
Who is Albert Einstein?
A machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney.
What is the Cotton Gin?
What is Jeep?
By connecting the existing eastern U.S. rail networks to the west coast, this became the first continuous railroad line across the United States. It was constructed between 1863 and 1869.
What is the the Transcontinental Railroad?
The name of the nuclear power plant that on April 26, exploded near the city of Pripyat.
What is Chernobyl?
An Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, who was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Statesman Appius Claudius is credited with building the first of this in Rome, which brought fresh water to a settlement so it doesn't have to rely on local water sources.
What is an aqueduct?
Because the Japanese had broken all the codes sent over the radio waves, the Marines were desperate to find a secure way to communicate vital information with little time. After several successful tests, this language was approved as a communication code.
What is Navajo?
This invention created by Thomas Newcomen resulted in the creation of semi-automated factories, and it increased goods production in places where water power was not available.
What is the steam engine?
A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between the German Empire and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Born in 1914, an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines
Who is Jonas Salk?
Collection of sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting him in his afterlife.
Developed during the Cold War, this communication system, consisting of a network of satellites, played a crucial role in military navigation and coordination.
What is the Global Positioning System (GPS)?
Provided a direct water route from New York City to the Midwest, triggering commercial and agricultural development—as well as immigration—to the sparsely populated frontiers of western New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and farther west.
What is the Erie Canal?
The place in which algebra was first created.
What is Ancient Babylon and/or Egypt?
German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
Fighting against the flooding of the Nile several months each year, this ancient civilization used irrigation to divert flood waters to nearby crop fields, thereby utilizing excess flood water for crops.
What is Mesopotamia?
In World War II, the Allies successfully decrypted German military codes using this groundbreaking machine, contributing significantly to the war effort
What is the Enigma machine?
Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 kilometers, it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the East and West.
What is the Silk Road?