Who invented printing with movable type around 1450?
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Johannes Gutenberg
He made books affordable.
💡 Did you know? His method shaped Europe for centuries.
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Who made the light bulb practical and ran an inventor's lab?
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Thomas Edison
He held over a thousand patents.
💡 Did you know? “Genius is one percent inspiration …”
Who patented the telephone in 1876?
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Alexander Graham Bell
His first words were to his assistant Watson.
💡 Did you know? The unit decibel recalls his name.
Who improved the steam engine into the engine of industry?
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James Watt
The unit of power, the watt, is named after him.
💡 Did you know? His engine powered factories and trains.
Who built the first practical car with a combustion engine in 1886?
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Carl Benz
His wife Bertha made the first long trip.
💡 Did you know? His name lives on in “Mercedes-Benz”.
Which two brothers achieved the first powered flight in 1903?
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Wright brothers
Their first flight lasted just twelve seconds.
💡 Did you know? They were originally bicycle makers.
Who developed wireless telegraphy (radio)?
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Guglielmo Marconi
He first sent signals across the Atlantic.
💡 Did you know? He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it.
Who invented dynamite and founded a famous prize?
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Alfred Nobel
He endowed the Nobel Prize with his fortune.
💡 Did you know? He wanted to be remembered for peace too.
Who invented the telegraph code of dots and dashes named after him?
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Samuel Morse
“SOS” is the best-known Morse signal.
💡 Did you know? The telegraph sent messages in an instant.
Who presented the first practical photographic process in 1839?
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Louis Daguerre
His pictures were called “daguerreotypes”.
💡 Did you know? They were unique images without a negative.
Which German built the first working computer, the Z3, in 1941?
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Konrad Zuse
The Z3 already used the binary system.
💡 Did you know? He is a pioneer of computing.
Who invented the World Wide Web around 1990?
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Tim Berners-Lee
He developed it at the CERN research centre.
💡 Did you know? He gave it to the world for free.
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