Inventions MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option D.
On December 12, 1901, a radio transmission received by Guglielmo Marconi resulted in the first transmission of a transatlantic wireless signal (Morse Code) from Poldhu, Cornwall, to St. John’s, Newfoundland.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first successful controlled powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in December 1903. The twelve second flight covered a distance of 120 feet and an altitude of just ten feet.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Later in 1840, Rowland Hill invented the stamp, which was paid for by the sender, not the receiver.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Alfred Noble patented dynamite in 1876. Nobel left $9 million in his will to be used as awards for people whose work benefit humanity – The Nobel Peace Prize etc.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Unfortunately Blount could never get anyone to buy her invention. Finally, in 1952 she sold the rights to the French government.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Frisbie made a brand of pies that were popular with Yale students in the 1870’s. After eating the pies they would throw the pie tins through the air.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
It was invented around the early 1700’s.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Bette’s other claim to fame was being the mother of Michael Nesmith of the Monkees.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The first lawn mowers were not engine powered. Invented in 1830 by Edwin Budding of England, the mowers were turning blades on wooden sticks used to cut grass. Engine powered mowers were not invented until 1919 by an American Army colonel, who used the motor from a washing machine.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
He was an undertaker, and legend has it, he developed the automatic switch in 1889, to stop competitors from getting his work!