Inventions MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Awarded a Patent in 1770. It used 8 bobbins at once.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Invented in 1937.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The first elevator was built in the palace of King Louis XV. It only traveled up one floor, and was hand powered by men inside the chimney.

✅ The correct answer is option B.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The first Frisbees were pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company in Connecticut. In the 1950s, the pie tins were changed to plastic plates. The name then became the Flying Saucer, but later changed to Frisbee.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Many people who tried to test the first parachutes died by jumping from high places. One attempt was a parachute hat, but the inventor broke his neck while testing it. The first successful parachute was tested from a hot air balloon in 1797, in France, by Jacques Garnerin.

✅ The correct answer is option B.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Dr. Hans von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle are recognized as the co-inventors of the jet engine. Each was working separately and knew nothing of the others work. Although Whittle started first, von Ohain was first to design and develop a turbojet engine to power an aircraft.

Of the many honors received by both, the most significant honor was probably “The Charles Draper Prize” in 1992 which was given to both Hans von Ohain and Sir Frank Whittle for their efforts and contributions to aviation and mankind. “The Charles Draper Prize” is recognized as the equivalent to the Nobel Prize in technology.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
It was originally called the ‘Epsicle’ in his honor. (I can see why that name didn’t catch on).

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Mary was not the first American woman inventor to be sure, there were many female inventors before her, but they never bothered to get a patent.