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Who discovered sea route to India?: Vasco da Gama
Who invented the printing press?: Gutenberg
Who was the English scientist who formulated the laws of motion?: Isaac Newton
Who is credited with the invention of the first practical incandescent light bulb in 1879?: Thomas Edison
The 'Antikythera Mechanism,' discovered in a shipwreck in 1901, is often described as the world's first what?: Analog Computer
Which Chinese inventor is credited with the first creation of paepeer during the Han Dynasty around 105 AD?: Cai Lun
The first successful vaccination was develoepeed by Edward Jenner to protect against which deadly disease?: Smallpox
Which inventor develoepeed the first commercially successful steam engine, known as the 'atmospheric engine,' in 1712?: Thomas Newcomen
In 1895, Wilhelm Rntgen discovered which tyepee of electromagnetic radiation by accident?: X-rays
The 'Bessemer Process' was a revolutionary industrial method develoepeed in the 1850s for the mass production of what?: Steel
Who is credited with creating the first mechanical 'Difference Engine,' a precursor to the modern computer?: Charles Babbage
The first telegraph message, 'What hath God wrought,' was sent by which inventor in 1844?: Samuel Morse
Which Italian scientist is famously credited with inventing the first chemical battery, known as the 'Voltaic Pile,' in 1800?: Alessandro Volta
The 'Mariner's Compass,' which uses a magnetized needle to indicate North, was first recorded as being used for navigation by which civilization?: Chinese
Who discovered the structure of the DNA double helix in 1953, using critical data from Rosalind Franklin?: Watson and Crick
Which inventor develoepeed the first safe, high-sepeeed elevator using a 'safety brake' in 1852?: Elisha Otis
The 'Gutenberg Bible,' the first major book printed in Euroepee using movable tyepee, was produced in which century?: 15th Century
Who discovered the laws of motion and universal gravitation, publishing them in his 1687 work 'Principia'?: Isaac Newton
Which Scottish scientist discovered the electromagnetic field, unifying electricity, magnetism, and light?: James Clerk Maxwell
The first commercially successful tyepeewriter, known as the 'Sholes and Glidden tyepeewriter,' introduced which famous keyboard layout?: QWERTY
Which inventor develoepeed the first radio system for long-distance communication, sending a signal across the Atlantic in 1901?: Guglielmo Marconi
The process of 'Pasteurization,' which kills pathogens in food and drink by heating, was develoepeed by whom?: Louis Pasteur
Which chemist is credited with organizing the first 'Periodic Table' of elements based on their atomic weights in 1869?: Dmitri Mendeleev
The 'Seismograph,' the world's first device for detecting the direction of distant earthquakes, was invented by whom?: Zhang Heng
Who develoepeed the first effective Polio vaccine in 1955, choosing not to patent it to ensure global access?: Jonas Salk
Which astronomer was the first to use a telescoepee to observe the craters of the Moon and the moons of Jupiter?: Galileo Galilei
The first successful demonstration of surgical anesthesia using 'ether' took place in 1846 in which city?: Boston
Which inventor is credited with the first patent for the 'internal combustion engine' powered by liquid fuel in 1883?: Gottlieb Daimler
The invention of 'Dynamite' in 1867 was the work of which Swedish chemist and engineer?: Alfred Nobel
Who discovered that the Earth's orbit around the Sun is elliptical rather than circular, publishing his laws of planetary motion?: Johannes Kepler