Inventions
The first words shared on this device were "Watson, come here. I want you."
What is the telephone?
The measure of electrical current.
What is amp? (ampere)
Developed in 1957 and still used in supercomputers today, Formula Translation is more commonly called this.
What is Fortran?
Orville and Wilbur Wright created the first American version of this new type of transportation.
What is the airplane?
Division by this digit is called undefined.
What is zero?
This invention replaced oil and gas lamps.
What is the incandescent (or electric) light bulb?
The unit of power in an electrical circuit.
What is watt?
This common business oriented language developed in 1959 is still used in banking.
What is COBOL?
This device created by Eli Whitney revolutionized farming in the south by greatly increasing the ability to process a certain plant.
What is the cotton gin?
A branch of mathematics that generalizes arithmetic by using abstract symbols, such as letters (variables), to represent unknown numbers or quantities and to express relationships between them.
What is algebra?
Marconi demonstrated this devise by sending a Morse code signal over a distance of 3 miles.
What is the wireless telegraph?
The measure of "electrical pressure" or "potential difference" that pushes electrons through a circuit, causing them to flow as current.
What is volt?
Developed by students at Dartmouth and later marketed by Bill Gates this beginners all-purpose instruction code is better known as this.
What is BASIC?
While not the inventor, Robert Fulton is created with developing the first commercially successful example of this transportation.
What is the steamboat?
The branch of mathematics that studies points, lines, shapes, angles, surfaces, and solids to understand their properties, measurements, and relationships.
What is geometry?
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was recognized as the "father" of this device and as the first to actually transmit the sound of the human voice without wires.
What is the radio?
This is a unit of energy, which is no longer an official unit of measurement but is still used in physics:
What is erg?
This program is named after a French mathematician and is so easy to learn that Apple used it early in its history.
What is Pascal?
Leonardo da Vinci's described his invention as a tent made of linen that would allow a man to throw himself down from any great height without suffering any injury.
What is a parachute?
This branch of mathematics studies the instantaneous rates of change and the slopes of curves.
What is (differential) calculus?
Farraday created this power system which was different than the one used by Edison and was later improved upon by Tesla.
What is alternating current?
This is a unit of electrical resistance.
What is ohm?
An earlier program was modified and is used in MS Office and Adobe Photoshop.
What is C++?
This multi-barrel rapid-fire firearm was invented in 1861.
What is the Gatling gun?
This branch of mathematics concerns the accumulation of quantities and areas under or between curves.
What is integral calculus?