Famous Inventions and Inventors

The video explores significant human inventions and discoveries, including the development of paper, the printing press, the steam engine, aviation, radio, telephone, television, computers, and modern rocketry. It highlights the contributions of key inventors like Gutenberg, the Wright brothers, Marconi, Graham Bell, Baird, Babbage, and Goddard, and discusses the impact of these inventions on communication, transportation, and technology.

Which of the following was NOT an early human invention?

• Electricity

• Wheel

• Farming

• Fire

Where was paper first invented?

• Egypt

• Greece

• China

• India

Who invented the printing press?

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

Who improved the steam engine design in 1765?

• Robert Fulton

• George Stephenson

• James Watt

• Thomas Newcomen

What was the name of the first successful airplane?

• Spirit of St. Louis

• Boeing 747

• Wright Flyer

• Concorde

Who is credited with inventing the radio?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

• Guglielmo Marconi

In what year was the telephone invented?

• 1924

• 1876

• 1895

• 1940

Who invented the television?

• John Logie Baird

• Philo Farnsworth

• Guglielmo Marconi

• Alexander Graham Bell

Who is known as the father of modern rocketry?

• Yuri Gagarin

• Robert Goddard

• Wernher von Braun

• Sergei Korolev

What was the first electronic digital computer called?

• Apple I

• UNIVAC

• ENIAC

• IBM 701