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Description
Invention Site
Invention Year
Purpose
100
The Yale Lock was invented by this person.
Who is Linus Yale Jr.?
100
Personal motorized watercraft with internal pump-jet.
What is a Jet-Ski?
100
Ferdinand von Zeppelin invented this in Germany in the year 1900.
What is a Zeppelin?
100
Sir William Thompson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, Lord Kelvin of Scotland, invented this in 1848.
What is the Kelvin Scale?
100
This was made as a synthetic substitute for silk.
What is Nylon?
200
The inventor of the Cat's Eye Road Stud, he lived from 1890 to 1976.
Who is Percy Shaw?
200
The first synthetic plastic.
What is Bakelite?
200
Erno Rubik invented this in Hungary, in the year 1974.
What is a Rubik's Cube?
200
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit made the first of these with a standardized scale, as well as invented the first standardized scale, in 1714.
What is the Fahrenheit Thermometer [and Scale]? *200 bonus points for mentioning the scale in 'question'*
200
George de Mestral invented this as a fastening device.
What is Velcro?
300
Craven Walker invented this based on something similar he saw in a pub.
What is a Lava Lamp?
300
Building toy based on actual construction girders.
What is an Erector Set?
300
Dr. Roy Plunkett accidentally invented this in Edison, New Jersey, in 1938, when he froze an experimental refrigerant.
What is Teflon?
300
Christopher Sholes invented this keyboard setup in 1875 to prevent the keys on a typewriter from jamming.
What is the QWERTY keyboard?
300
This was made to model the movement of stars and other celestial bodies in the sky.
What is an Armillary Sphere?
400
Douglas Engelbart filed for the patent for this invention in 1967.
What is a Computer Mouse?
400
First working mechanical cash register.
What is the Incorruptible Cashier?
400
In 1905, Frank Epperson invented this tasty treat on a cold night in the San Francisco Bay Area.
What is the Popsicle?
400
This was created by Dr. Wilhelm Reich in 1940 to improve a patient's health by absorbing orgone, or life, energy.
What is an Orgone Accumulator?
400
Sir James Dewar invented this to aid in his work with liquid gases.
What is the Dewar Flask?
500
The inventor of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell.
Who is Francis T Bacon?
500
Nearly indestructible, fire-resistant plaster.
What is Geobond?
500
Chester Carlson invented this procedure in 1938 as a more efficient and less expensive method of copy-making.
What is Xerography?
500
Major General Henry Shrapnel invented this in 1784, which was used in World War I.
What is Shrapnel?
500
This was developed for the United States Census Bereau.
What is the UNIVAC computer?