Inventors of Amplify

Which inventor patented over 1,093 inventions?

• Hedy Lamarr

• George Washington Carver

• Thomas Edison

• Jacques Cousteau

Which inventor used natural resources such as peanuts and sweet potatoes?

• Hedy Lamarr

• George Washington Carver

• Thomas Edison

• Jacques Cousteau

Which inventor felt most at home in the water, so he created the Aqua Lung?

• Hedy Lamar

• George Washington Carver

• Thomas Edison

• Jacques Cousteau

Which inventor invented frequency hopping, a way of changing frequencies of radio signals?

• Hedy Lamarr

• George Washington Carver

• Thomas Edison

• Jacques Cousteau

Which inventor seemed to attract false stories even though she created one of the most popular cookies?

• Ruth Wakefield

• Hedy Lamarr

• Bette Nesmith Graham

• Jacques Cousteau

Which inventor's accident when he was 3 help to create an invention so blind people could read?

• George Washington Carver

• Louis Braille

• Alexander Fleming

• Thomas Edison

Which inventor created an invention that paints over ink mistakes rather than erases them?

• Louis Braille

• Bette Nesmith Graham

• Alexander Fleming

• Ruth Wakefield

Which inventor wanted to help injured soldiers in the war, so he accidentally created penicillin, a well known antibiotic today.

• George Washington Carver

• Louis Braille

• Jacques Cousteau

• Alexander Fleming

Match the following

• George Washington Carver

• A bank secretary who tired of having to retype her work over and over again

• Jacques Cousteau

• He was born into slavery. When his inventions were created, he didn't want paid.

• Hedy Lamarr

• A movie star who was not taken seriously but helped pave the way for her invention to be used later in wireless phones, GPS, etc.

• Bette Nesmith Graham

• A diver who loved the ocean and wanted to invent a device to use underwater

• Alexander Fleming

• A bacteriologist who studied in a lab; he was very messy

Match the following

• Jacques Cousteau

• An undersea explorer who invented a deepwater camera for scuba divers

• Thomas Edison

• An inventor who discovered that mold kills live bacteria

• Ruth Wakefield

• An inventor who started out catching a baggage car on fire

• Alexander Fleming

• An inventor who was inspired by night writing, another invention created for soldiers on the battlefield

• Louis Braille

• A restaurant owner who modified a recipe that people love today