Famous inventors & inventions: Celebrate inventors and their creations

Questions

1. Who is credited with inventing the light bulb in the late 19th century?
2. Which inventor is famous for developing the first practical telephone?
3. The World Wide Web was invented by which scientist?
4. Who invented the first successful airplane?
5. Which inventor is known for creating the polio vaccine?
6. What invention is Johannes Gutenberg famous for?
7. Who is credited with inventing the modern electric battery?
8. The process of vulcanizing rubber was developed by which inventor?
9. Who invented the first mechanical calculator, known as the Pascaline?
10. Which inventor is associated with the development of the first programmable computer?

Answers

1. Thomas Edison
2. Alexander Graham Bell
3. Tim Berners-Lee
4. The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur Wright)
5. Jonas Salk
6. The printing press
7. Alessandro Volta
8. Charles Goodyear (though he developed vulcanization, not the rubber itself)
9. Blaise Pascal
10. Konrad Zuse