Famous Inventions & Inventors
Who invented what? Inventions that changed civilisation.
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#1
Q: Who invented the telephone?
A: Alexander Graham Bell (1876).
#2
Q: Who invented the practical light bulb?
A: Thomas Edison (1879).
#3
Q: Who invented the World Wide Web?
A: Tim Berners-Lee (1989).
#4
Q: Who invented penicillin?
A: Alexander Fleming (1928).
#5
Q: Who invented the printing press?
A: Johannes Gutenberg (c.1440).
#6
Q: Who invented the airplane?
A: Orville and Wilbur Wright (1903).
#7
Q: Who invented dynamite?
A: Alfred Nobel (1867).
#8
Q: Who invented the car?
A: Karl Benz — Benz Patent-Motorwagen (1885).
#9
Q: Who invented vaccination?
A: Edward Jenner (1796).
#10
Q: Who invented the radio?
A: Guglielmo Marconi (1895–1901).
#11
Q: Who invented the transistor?
A: Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley at Bell Labs (1947).
#12
Q: Who improved the steam engine?
A: James Watt (1769).
#13
Q: Who invented TCP/IP?
A: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn (1970s).
#14
Q: Who invented X-rays?
A: Wilhelm Röntgen (1895).
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