Famous Engin-ventors
The inventor of the light bulb
Thomas Edison
Number of nuclear reactors at UW-Madison
1 MW TRIGA Research Reactor
Most abundant element in the universe
Nitrogen
The first man on the moon
Neil Armstrong
First PrEPS session of this year
Developed the first steamboat
Robert Fulton
The number of zeros in a 'googol'
100
Tallest building in the world
Burj Khalifa at 828 meters tall
The Apollo # that landed on the moon
Apollo 11
Decade of the first moon landing
1960's (July 16 1969)
First person to break the speed of sound
Chuck Yeager
Magnitude of Coulomb's Constant (bonus points for units)
9x10^9 (units of N*m^2/C^2)
SR-71 (YF12/A12 is also an acceptable answer)
First object to orbit the Earth
Decade in which the lightbulb was invented
1870's (1879 in particular)
Proponent of AC power in war of AC vs DC
Nikola Tesla
The speed of light in a vacuum
3x10^8 m/s
U.S. News top engineering school in the nation ranked in 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First mars rover
Pathfinder
13th century in the region spanning northern Italy to southern Germany
Dropped out of Stanford in two days and has started 8 companies
Elon Musk
The speed of sound in air
343 m/s or 767 mph
The first cars were fitted with these to calm nerves of horses
Fake horse heads
Created the first liquid-fueled rocket
Robert Goddard
Decade in which the atom was split
1930's (1932 Specifically)