Inventions and discoveries: who was behind them?
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Write who was behind the invention or discovery. The list uses the person usually credited, even where others contributed.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The printing press with movable type | Johannes Gutenberg |
| The heliocentric model of the solar system | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| The law of universal gravitation | Isaac Newton |
| The smallpox vaccine | Edward Jenner |
| The cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
| The theory of evolution by natural selection | Charles Darwin |
| Dynamite | Alfred Nobel |
| The periodic table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| The telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| The phonograph | Thomas Edison |
| The airplane | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| The theory of relativity | Albert Einstein |
| Penicillin | Alexander Fleming |
| The polio vaccine | Jonas Salk |
| The three-point seat belt | Nils Bohlin |
| The World Wide Web | Tim Berners-Lee |
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We checked the answers against these references.
- Wikipedia: Printing press
- Wikipedia: Copernican heliocentrism
- Wikipedia: Newton's law of universal gravitation
- Wikipedia: Smallpox vaccine
- Wikipedia: Cotton gin
- Wikipedia: On the Origin of Species
- Wikipedia: Dynamite
- Wikipedia: Periodic table
- Wikipedia: Alexander Graham Bell
- Wikipedia: Phonograph
- Wikipedia: Wright brothers
- Wikipedia: Theory of relativity
- Wikipedia: Penicillin
- Wikipedia: Polio vaccine
- Wikipedia: Nils Bohlin
- Wikipedia: World Wide Web