Technology QUIZZES
Inventions quiz
1. Who invented the telephone?
2. Who built the first car?
3. When were the first movies shown?
4. The first successful photographs were named after their inventor. What were they called?
5. Thomas Edison invented the first recording machine, known as the phonograph. What was the first recorded sound he made on it?
6. German engineer Hans von Ohain was the designer of the first jet engine to go into operation on the Heinkel He-178 plane. But who first invented the jet engine?
7. Johannes Gutenberg built the first movable type printing press in Europe in around 1439. But this type of printing had already been invented about 400 years earlier. Where?
8. Who was the first to make a long-distance radio transmission?
9. One of the world's greatest artists was also a great inventor. He came up with ideas for a parachute, helicopter, armoured vehicle, self-propelled cart and even a sort of robot. Who was he?
10. Who invented the first computer programme?
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