Inventions MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
On September 12, 1958, Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working IC while working for Texas Instruments, although the U.S. patent office awarded the first patent for an integrated circuit to Robert Noyce of Fairchild.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Joseph F. Glidden was born in New York on Jan. 18, 1812. He invented barbed wire in 1873 and was granted the patent on Nov. 24, 1874. After a three year battle over the patent, which he eventually won, Gidden became known as the “Father of Barbed Wire”.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
It was originally called ‘Tom Thumb Golf’.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Will Keith Kellogg discovered the corn flake, by mistake, in 1906. They were the result of an experiment which went wrong.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The first wireless remote control for television was called Flashmatic. (Remember when you had to get up to change the channel?)

✅ The correct answer is option D.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
John Kruesi was a mechanic for Edison, and Kruesi built the phonograph. Edison designed it, and later improved the phonograph.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The Electric Drill was the invention of Arthur James Arnot. On 20 August 1889 he patented his design while working for the Union Electric Company in Melbourne. His original design was meant primarily for drilling rock to find coal!

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Invented in 1942.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The first toothbrush was made out of a bone and small brush, by jail prisoner William Addis of England.