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1. The German physicist Hans Geiger is best remembered as the co-inventor of a device for measuring what?
 
Pressure
Radiation
Rainfall
Temperature
 
 
2. John Logie Baird, the inventor of television, was born in 1888 in which country of the UK?
 
England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales

He was born in Helensburgh
 
 
3. Who invented the hovercraft in 1952?
 
Christopher Cockerell
Jacques Cousteau
Igor Sikorsky
Barnes Wallis
 
 
4. The Gatling gun was invented during which war?
 
American Civil War
Spanish-American War
World War One
Spanish Civil War

Richard J Gatling took out the patent in 1862
 
 
5. Which physicist and chemist invented the vacuum flask in 1892?
 
James Dewar
James Dewey
James Drury
James Durie
 
 
6. What nationality was Laszlo Biro, inventor of the modern ballpoint pen?
 
Czechoslovakian
Danish
Hungarian
Polish

The patent is now owned by the Bic company
 
 
7. Frank Hornby first produced the construction toy Meccano in which city?
 
Birmingham
Liverpool
Manchester
Sheffield

It was originally called Mechanics Made Easy
 
 
8. What was invented by James Hargreaves in the 1760s?
 
The spin-dryer
The spinning jenny
The spinning mule
The spinning wheel
 
 
9. Which everyday object seen on the roads was patented by Yorkshireman Percy Shaw in 1934?
 
The cat's eye
The parking meter
The roundabout
The traffic cone
 
 
10. Who is credited with inventing the instant camera in 1947?
 
George Eastman
Robert Kodak
Edwin Land
Edwin Lund
 
 
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