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Inventions Test 14
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    The initials JCB on earth-moving equipment are those of the founder of the company that makes it. What is his name?

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    Joseph Cyril Bamford founded the company that makes these iconic machines in 1945, in a 12ft X 15ft garage in Staffordshire.

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    Who invented the BALLPOINT PEN?

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    The Hungarian brothers, Laszlo and George Biro, made the first ball point pen in 1894. It followed the first workable fountain pen which was invented by L.E. Waterman in 1884.

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    What J. B. Dunlop invented?

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    Which scientist discovered the radioactive element radium?

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    When was barb wire patented?

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    What is the name of the CalTech seismologist who invented the scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?

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    What Galileo invented?

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    Various authors have credited the invention of the thermometer to Cornelius Drebbel, Robert Fludd, Galileo Galilei or Santorio Santorio. The thermometer was not a single invention, however, but a development.

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    This statesman, politican, scholar, inventor, and one of early presidents of USA invented the swivel chair, the spherical sundial, the moldboard plow, and the cipher wheel.

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    Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801-1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776).

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    What James Watt invented?

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    Invented in 1765.

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    Where is the village of Branston, after which the famous pickle is named?

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