gARY 295

INVENTORS & INVENTIONS

100

In 1859 Martha Coston patented these devices that sailors could send into the sky to communicate

fLARES

200

This device was first developed by Zenith in 1950 under the name "Lazy Bones"

Remote control

300

   $6009

One of the first of these was based on an inclined conveyor belt & used in a NYC elevated train station in 1900 

Escalator

400

In 1893 this German engineer published "The Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Engine

Diesel

500

Invented by Philip Drinker in the 1920s, this closed respirator is used by patients who can't breathe on their own

Iron Lung

ADVERTISING

100

Shown in 1941, the first TV commercial was a Bulova ad for these

watches

200

Advertising Age ranked the 1959 "Think Small" ads for this car the top campaign of the 20th century

VW Beetle

300

January 1, 1971 was the last day these could be advertised on U.S. TV

cigarettes

400

Medieval merchants hired these to shout out praises for their wares in addition to the local news

Town Crier

500

Clairol's "Does she... or doesn't she" ads read, "Only her mother knows for sure" but were soon changed to this

Hairdresser

THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

100

400s B.C.:
This Greek "father of medicine" bases medicine on observation & reasoning

Hioopcrates

200

1590:
Dutch lens grinder Zacharias Janssen invents a type of this optical research instrument

Microscope

300

1948:
Johns Hopkins scientists find that this antihistamine alleviates motion sickness

Dramomine

400

1952:
Paul Zoll develops the first of these cardiac aids that help control an irregular heartbeat

Pacemaker

500

1844:
During a tooth extraction, Dr. Horace Wells makes the first use of this gas as an anesthetic

Nitrous  oxide

BUT FEAR ITSELF

100

Your only option may be to lie down if you have stasiphobia, a fear of standing, & thaasophobia, a fear of this

Sitting

200

   $4002

Cryophobics won't add this to their glasses of whiskey 

ice

300

Fearing this, a linonophobe could never work a yo-yo

String

400

Scared of these, a chromophobe probably liked NBC better before the peacock

Colors

500

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A man suffering from gynophobia & gymnophobia would be doubly afraid of women who are this 

Naked

THROW IT HERE

100

Completes the proverb "People who live in glass houses shouldn't..."

Throw stones

200

To issue a challenge is to "throw down" this, like a medieval knight

Gauntlet

300

Too bad when Hart Crane jumped ship his father couldn't throw him this, like the same-named candy he invented

Life saver

400

From the Latin for "to speak from the belly", it's the art of throwing one's voice

Ventriliquism

500

In 1915 he became the first president to attend the World Series & to throw out the first pitch during a Series game

Woodrow  Wilson