Invention and Inventor Quiz

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor and scientist who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone in 1876. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak is known as the father of the extremist movement in India. He was one of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirates. Tilak was the first leader of the Indian independence movement. The British colonial authorities called him 'The father of the Indian unrest'.

In 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first injectable vaccine against polio. Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) was developed by Dr Albert Sabin in 1961.

German chemist Otto Hahn (1879-1968) invented the atom bomb in 1938. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and the godfather of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) is known as the 'father of the atomic bomb' for their role in the Manhattan Project – the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons.

Roald Amundsen was a respected Norwegian explorer who was determined to beat the British expedition and be the first to reach the South Pole.

A mobile phone or Cellular Phone is invented by American engineer Martin Cooper in 1973. He is considered the “father of cellular phone” and is also cited as the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public.

The human blood groups were discovered by Austrian-born American biologist Karl Landsteiner in 1901. In 1900 Karl Landsteiner found out that the blood of two people under contact agglutinates, and in 1901 he found that this effect was due to contact of blood with blood serum. As a result, he succeeded in identifying the three blood groups A, B and O, which he labelled C, of human blood.

Vinod Dham is known as the 'Father of the Pentium Chip' for his contribution to the development of Intel's Pentium microprocessor. He is an Indian engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

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.

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