Inventions and Inventors
Find 10 breakthroughs that changed the course of history.
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About This Puzzle
From the printing press to the internet, a handful of breakthroughs have reshaped how people live, work, and connect. This puzzle gathers ten of them.
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- Telephone
- A device that transmits voice over distance, credited largely to Alexander Graham Bell.
- Lightbulb
- An electric device that produces light, famously refined by Thomas Edison.
- Printingpress
- A machine for mass-producing text, developed by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1400s.
- Telescope
- An optical instrument for viewing distant objects, improved and used by Galileo to study the sky.
- Airplane
- A powered flying machine first successfully flown by the Wright brothers in 1903.
- Vaccine
- A medical treatment that trains the immune system to fight disease, pioneered by Edward Jenner.
- Steamengine
- A machine that converts steam power into motion, refined by James Watt and central to the Industrial Revolution.
- Internet
- A global network connecting computers, built from research originally funded by the U.S. military.
- Compass
- An early navigational invention that uses a magnetized needle to indicate direction.
- Penicillin
- The first true antibiotic, discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928.
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