- What landmark invention did Ts'ai Lun invent from bark and hemp
in the second century?
- What did "Art Fry invent after scraps of paper to mark tunes
in his hymnal kept falling out?
- What did Leonardo invent to check humidity while he worked on
the Last Supper fresco?
- What country was the first to register a patent on polyester?
- What "foot doctor" held over 300 patents?
- What 1947 invention by Bell Telephone Laboratories spawned
pocket-sized radios?
- What disease prompted polio vaccine inventor Dr. Jonas Salk to
come out of retirement in 1987?
- What was the occupation of cotton candy machine inventor
William James Morrison?
- What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in
1592?
- What did George Nisser invent after observing high wire
performers bouncing on safety nets?
- What century saw the invention of the shoelace?
- What name did George Eastman invent in 1888 because it
was easy to memorize, pronounce, and spell?
- What innovative inventor's Dymaaxion car could carry eleven
passengers, exceed 120 mph and get 30 miles per gallon in 1934?
- What type of structure did R. Buckminster Fuller patent in
1954?
- What century saw Alexander Cummings issued the first
patent for a flush toilet?
- What portable device did James Spengler invent in 1907, using
a soap box, pillow case, a fan and tape?
- What landmark invention eased farming chores for
Sumerians in 3500 B.C.?
- What food product did Hyppolyte Merge-mouries invent in
1868 by treating oils with hydrogen?
- What British second lieutenant got the idea to fill a canister
shell with musket balls and a charge of gunpowder?
- Who averaged one patent for every three weeks of his
life?
- What kitchen invention took the top prize at the 1893 Chicago
World's Fair?
- What company gave the world the first electric
toothbrush?
- What Edwin Budding invention began changing the face of
English landscapes in the 1820s?
- What invention for keeping cold air out of buildings in winter
was patented by Theophilus Van Kannel in 1888?
- What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?
Invention Trivia.
- Paper.
- Post-it Notes.
- The hygrometer.
- Briton.
- Dr. Scholl.
- The transistor.
- AIDS.
- Dentist.
- Galileo.
- The trampoline.
- The eighteenth.
- Kodak.
- Buckminster Fuller's.
- The geodesic dome.
- The eighteenth.
- The vacuum cleaner.
- The plow.
- Margarine.
- Sir Henry Shrapnel.
- Thomas Edison.
- The dishwasher.
- Interplak.
- The lawn mower.
- The revolving door.
- The Tractor.
