Inventions MCQs

82. For what is Charles Babbage (1792-1871) remembered?

A. Computers
B. Telescopes
C. Radio-Telegraphy
D. Steam Boating
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Know as the Father of Computing. He began his ‘Analytical Engine’ in 1833. The first computer, although he never completed it.

84. What Karl Benz invented?

A. Gasoline powered automobile
B. Streetcar
C. Glider
D. Steam turbine
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Invented in 1885.

86. Who invented Dynamite?

A. Sir Alexander Graham Bell
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Thomas Alva Edison
D. Alfred B. Nobel
✅ The correct answer is option D.

88. Who invented fuel cells in 1839?

A. Buckminster Fuller
B. Sir William Grove
C. Sylvester Graham
D. Joyce Hall
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Fuel cells were invented in 1839 by Sir William Grove.

89. Who is the only U.S. President to invent and patent something?

A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Theodore Roosevelt
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. Rutherford B. Hayes
✅ The correct answer is option A.
In 1849 Honest Abe invented a method to aid ships that got stuck on sandbars. He called it A Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals. It was never used.
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