First car made with Teetor's cruise control method was the
Answer: B
It was the Chrysler Imperial.
Ralph Teetor, who was blind, devised cruise control after being irritated by his lawyer's uneven driving. It appeared on the 1958 Chrysler Imperial under the name Auto-Pilot.
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Which piece of clothing was invented by the French designer Louis Reard in 1946?
Answer: C
It was the bikini.
Louis Reard introduced it in Paris in July 1946 and named it after Bikini Atoll, where an atomic test had been conducted four days earlier - he expected the garment to make a comparable explosion.
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Who Invented Elevator Safety Brake ?
Answer: B
Elisha G. Otis invented it.
His device of 1852 used a wagon spring that engaged ratchets on the guide rails the moment rope tension was lost. He demonstrated it at the New York Crystal Palace in 1854 by having the rope cut while standing on the platform.
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The earliest version of the cathode ray tube, using a cold-cathode diode, was invented by which German physicist?
Answer: A
It was Ferdinand Braun.
He built the first cathode ray tube in 1897, using a cold cathode and a fluorescent screen - the Braun tube. Every television and oscilloscope before the flat panel descended from it. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize with Marconi.
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Who invented the safety pin in 1849 ?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Walter Hunt
Walter Hunt patented the safety pin in 1849, reportedly designing it in a few hours to settle a debt, and sold the rights for four hundred dollars. Its coiled spring and guarded clasp are essentially unchanged today.
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The hovercraft travels over land and water. Who invented it?
Answer: D
Christopher Cockerell invented it.
The British engineer worked out in 1955 that a ring of air blown downward would trap a cushion beneath a craft, testing the idea with two tin cans and a hair dryer. The SR.N1 crossed the Channel in 1959.
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Nancy Johnson invented hand-cranked ice cream churn in
Answer: A
It was 1843.
Nancy Johnson patented the hand-cranked ice cream churn, in which a paddle inside a cylinder was turned by hand while the cylinder sat in a bucket of ice and salt. The design is still the basis of domestic ice cream makers.
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the name of the CalTech seismologist who invented the scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes is?
Answer: A
Charles Richter.
He devised the scale at the California Institute of Technology in 1935 with Beno Gutenberg. It is logarithmic: each whole number is a tenfold increase in wave amplitude and about thirty-two times the energy.
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Who first designed and demonstrated the ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet?
Answer: C
Leonard Kleinrock.
He developed the queueing theory behind packet switching and supervised the first ARPANET node at UCLA, from which the first message was sent on 29 October 1969.
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First regenerative circuit was invented and patented in 1914 by
Answer: D
Edwin Armstrong invented it.
He patented the regenerative circuit in 1914 while an undergraduate, feeding part of a valve's output back to its input so that the same valve amplified a signal many times over. It made long-distance radio reception possible.
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