Gabriel Fahrenheit
Gabriel Fahrenheit's most famous invention, used to measure the temperature of a substance.
What is the mercury-in-glass thermometer?
Samuel Crompton's most famous invention, made in 1779.
What is the spinning mule?
The inventor of the lightning rod.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
The inventor of the threshing machine.
Who was Andrew Meikle?
A book containing all the words of the English language.
What is a dictionary?
A device that measures temperature, invented by Gabriel Fahrenheit.
What is a thermometer?
The purpose of the spinning mule.
What is spinning yarn suitable for manufacturing muslin?
A metal rod intended to protected a structure from lightning strikes.
What is a lightning rod?
A device used to remove the outer husks from grains of wheat.
What is the threshing machine?
He is considered one of the most distinguished scholars in English history.
Who was Samuel Johnson?
The primary temperature standard, developed by Gabriel Fahrenheit, in the U.S.
What is the Fahrenheit scale?
A result of the invention of the spinning mule.
What is even finer thread?
This famous experiment led to Franklin's invention of the lightning rod.
What was the kite experiment?
The threshing machine was initially powered by this animal.
What is a horse?
Defining, Spelling, and containing all the words in the english language.
What is the purpose of a dictionary?
Gabriel Fahrenheit determined this to be the freezing point of water using the thermometer and temperature scale he developed.
What is 32°F?
Crompton received this in royalties from his invention of the spinning mule.
What is nothing?
This painful experience often occurred to scientists doing similar experiments to Franklin's kite experiment.
What is electrocution?
The threshing machine was later improved to be powered by this.
What is a steam engine?
One of the greatest achievements of scholarship at the time.
What was writing the dictionary?
Still among the most reliable and accurate way of measuring temperature.
What is the mercury-in-glass thermometer?
The spinning mule was made automatic in this year.
When was 1834?
In 1752 this famous building in Philadelphia had a lightning rod installed on it.
What is Independence Hall?
These two people received a patent for the threshing machine, rather than Meikle.
Who were John Avery and Hiram Abial Pitts?
These were two of Samuel Johnson's other hobbies.
What were poetry and playwriting?