Invention and Inventor Quiz

Greek mathematician Euclid (lived 300 BCE) is often referred to as the 'founder of geometry' or 'father of geometry'. He is best known for his geometry book, the Elements.

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Herodotus (484-425/413 BCE) was a Greek writer who invented the field of study known today as history. He was called 'The Father of History' by the Roman writer and orator Cicero for his famous work The Histories.

Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The basis for vaccination began in 1796 when He noticed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox were protected from smallpox.

Robert Edwin Peary discovered the North Pole in 1909. He was an American explorer and United States Naval officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909.

The transistor radio was invented by the Japanese company Sony (old name Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). For several months, the founder of Sony, Masaru Ibuka traveled around the United States borrowing ideas from the American transistor manufacturers. Improving upon the ideas, Sony made its first functional transistor radio in 1954.

Charles Babbage was an English polymath. He originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Babbage is called the 'Father of the Computer'.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist. He discovered that massive stars can collapse under their own gravity to reach enormous or even infinite densities. Today we call these collapsed stars neutron stars and black holes. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler.

The invention of Portland cement usually is attributed to Joseph Aspdin of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, who in 1824 took out a patent for a material that was produced from a synthetic mixture of limestone and clay. Portland cement is named after the high-quality building stones quarried in Portland, England.

Dhanvantari is the Hindu god of medicine and an avatar of Lord Mahavishnu. He is mentioned in the Puranas as the god of Ayurveda.