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Inventions Test 16
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Inventions Test 16

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    When was Monopoly created?

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    After the Stock Market crash, a buying and selling game created by Charles Darrow came to be. The first games were hand drawn on linoleum with streets from Atlantic City, N.J. as the property. He took the game to the Parker Brothers company, and Monopply was brought out for Christmas 1934. Everyone wanted to buy the games after Christmas, and Monopoly became a big success.

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    What furniture item was invented by California furniture designer Charles Prior Hall in 1968?

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    The Manhattan Project was started by President Roosevelt in 1942 to ensure that the U.S. beat the Germans in developing a nuclear bomb. Whom did Roosevelt appoint as scientific head the Manhattan Proj

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    When was the first lawn mower invented?

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    In which decade were the first successful diode and triode vacuum tubes invented?

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    In 1904, John Ambrose Fleming invented the first practical electron tube called the 'Fleming Valve', which is a diode rectifier. In 1906, Lee de Forest invented the audion later called the triode, which provided signal amplification.

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    Who is the English physicist responsible for the 'Big Bang Theory'?

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    George Gamow. Gamow, who died in 1968, was a physicist, who published "Thirty Years that Shook Physics".

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    What 'game' was first produced by the Southern Novelty Company in Baltimore, Maryland in 1892?

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    Who had an explosive idea and first patented DYNAMITE?

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    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.

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    Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

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    Awarded a Patent in 1770. It used 8 bobbins at once.

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    Which insurance salesman invented the fountain pen in 1884?

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    Lewis Edson Waterman patented the first practical fountain pen in 1884.

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