Inventions, discoveries
Who founded Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg
Computers can share information because ecery computer has a unique .....
IP address
Who patented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
WWW
World Wide Web
a radio programme that is stored in a digital form that you can download from the internet and play on a computer or on an MP3 player
podcast
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
How is the internet connection speed measured?
in megabits per second (mbps)
How do rotary dial phones work?
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DVD
Digital Versatile Disc
a structure where bees live
bee hive
Who patented the steam engine?
James Watt
What does IoT stand for and what does it mean?
internet of things = all connected devices, from music players tofridges
a device connected to a phone that answers calls automatically and records messages from the person calling
answerphone
MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
a phone that is connected to the phone system by wires
landline
Who invented the printing press around 1440?
Johannes Gutenberg
Who invented the WWW?
Tim Berners-Lee
When was the telephone invented?
1876
RAM
Random-Access-Memory
a solid substance that has a conductivity between that of an insulator and that of most metals, either due to the addition of an impurity or because of temperature effects.
semiconductor
Who achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane?
Wilbur and Orville Wright
When was the first browser made?
1989
What was the most iconic 80s mobile phone?
Motorola DynaTac
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something
device