80 Famous Inventors And Inventions Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which inventor patented the telephone in the United States in 1876?
Answer
Alexander Graham Bell
Which inventor created the first electric battery, demonstrated in 1800 as the voltaic pile?
Answer
Alessandro Volta
Which inventor developed the first widely used mechanical calculator, the arithmometer, in 1820?
Answer
Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
Which inventor patented the first successful mechanical dishwasher in 1886?
Answer
Josephine Cochrane
Which inventor created the first commercially successful typewriter, patented in 1868?
Answer
Christopher Latham Sholes
Which inventor patented the first practical sewing machine in 1846?
Answer
Elias Howe
Which inventor is credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989?
Answer
Tim Berners-Lee
Which inventor created the first permanent photograph, made in France around 1826?
Answer
Nicéphore Niépce
Which inventor created the first successful synthetic plastic, Bakelite, in 1907?
Answer
Leo Baekeland
Which invention did Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil patent in 1942 to help guide torpedoes?
Answer
Frequency-hopping spread spectrum
Which inventor created the first electronic television image in 1927?
Answer
Philo Farnsworth
Which inventor developed the first widely used diesel engine, patented in 1892?
Answer
Rudolf Diesel
Which inventor developed the first successful rabies vaccine in 1885?
Answer
Louis Pasteur
Who invented the three-position traffic signal, patented in 1923?
Answer
Garrett Morgan
Who invented the induction motor, first demonstrated publicly in 1888?
Answer
Nikola Tesla
Which inventor patented the cotton gin in the United States in 1794?
Answer
Eli Whitney
Which inventors made the first sustained, controlled flight of a powered airplane in 1903?
Answer
The Wright brothers
Which inventor is credited with introducing movable-type printing to Europe around 1440?
Answer
Johannes Gutenberg