1. Who is known as the “father of the computer”?

2. Who invented the airplane?

3. Who invented the electric battery?

4. Who invented the steam engine?

5. Who invented the airplane autopilot system?

6. Who invented the World Wide Web browser?

7. What was James Watt's primary invention that made the steam engine efficient?

8. What was the purpose of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?

9. What was the primary purpose of Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod?

10. What was the first official message sent via Morse's telegraph?

11. What prompted Edwin Land to invent the instant camera?

12. What did Marconi do to his antenna to significantly increase the range of his radio signals?

13. What was the main advantage of Armstrong's FM radio over the existing AM radio?

14. The 'aeolipile' invented by Hero of Alexandria is considered the first version of what modern device?

15. What type of virus did Jonas Salk use in his polio vaccine?

16. What technology from the music industry did Edwin Link adapt to create the first flight simulator?

17. What was the primary advantage of Whitney's interchangeable parts for the military?

18. To what modern computer component is Babbage's 'Store' equivalent?

19. What was the main limitation of Galileo's thermoscope compared to a modern thermometer?

20. What physical event created the radio waves in Marconi's first transmitters?