WorksheetsS&T Historical Timeline
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
The birth of 'technology' was when the first human-like species, Homo habilis, made sharp ____________________ from ____________________.
(a)
This is the longest-used invention in human history and had the biggest influence on the development of modern civilization.
He developed the first mechanical printing machine in 1440s.
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Gutenberg
Who invented the first telescope?
Galileo Galilei
Hans Lippershey
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nikola Tesla
____________________ took the primitive microscope made by Hans Janssen a step further with a magnification of 270 times and discovered tiny single-celled creatures in pond water.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Louis Pasteur
Hans Christian Gram
Florence Nightingale
Benjamin Franklin proved that (a) was a form of electricity.
The image above is called a/an (a) .
He is known for his registered trademark Kodak, long known for its wide range of photographic film products.
Joseph Niepce
George Eastman
Louis Daguerre
Thomas Edison
He was the first to patent a machine in 1876 that you could use to talk to someone on the other side of the world.
Johannes Gutenberg
Henry Ford
Nikola Tesla
Alexander Graham Bell
He is known for his improved internal combustion engine in 1876 and still the way cars work today.
Rolls Royce
Henry Ford
Nicolas Otto
Karl Benz
He recorded the first X-ray image developed.
Wilhelm Rontgen
Marie Curie
Henri Becquerel
James Watson
(a) uses short and long elements (known as dots and dashes) to transmit information.
Two bicycle repairmen from Ohio, ____________________ and ____________________ built and flew the first really successful aeroplane in North Carolina.
(a)
The Proton rocket is a type of ____________________ space vehicle.
Chinese
Greek
American
Russian
They split the atom and proved correct Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. They also unlocked the secrets of the atomic nucleus.
Robert Goddard
John Cockcroft
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Earnest Walton
