Flashcards on Computers and Major Historical Inventions

Computers and Major Historical Inventions: A Student's Guide

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When was the wheel invented according to the content?

Around 3500 years BC (Before Christ).

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History of inventions

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Question: When was the wheel invented according to the content?

Answer: Around 3500 years BC (Before Christ).

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Question: Where and when was paper first invented, and what materials were used initially?

Answer: In China in the 2nd century BC; first made of silk, later of wood.

Card 3

Question: Who developed the printing press and around what year?

Answer: Johannes Gutenberg in Germany, around 1440.

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Question: Who first published the law of gravitation and in what year?

Answer: Isaac Newton, 1687.

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Question: Who patented the steam engine and in what year?

Answer: James Watt, a Scottish engineer, in 1776.

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Question: Who invented the telephone and in what year?

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell, 1876.

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Question: Who invented the light bulb and in what year?

Answer: Thomas Alva Edison, 1879.

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Question: Who patented the two-stroke engine for the car and what company did he later found?

Answer: Karl Benz patented it in 1879; he later founded the Mercedes‑Benz company.

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Question: Who published the theory of relativity and in what year?

Answer: Albert Einstein, 1905.

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Question: Who discovered penicillin and in what year?

Answer: Alexander Fleming, a Scottish biologist, discovered it in 1928.