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Inventors and Scientific Discoveries

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This hub provides questions related to great inventors and their scientific discoveries. It covers the inventors of the telephone, radio, and microchips, alongside Nobel Prize winners. These facts are crucial for the general awareness section of major competitive exams.

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Inventors and Scientific Discoveries Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Marconi

  2. Braille

  3. Edison

  4. Max Planck

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Guglielmo Marconi is credited with the invention of the radio, often referred to as the wireless telegraphy system.

Multiple choice
  1. Graham bell

  2. G.Marconi

  3. Charles Darwin

  4. Samuel Morse

  5. Newton

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Guglielmo Marconi is credited with the invention of the radio, having developed the first successful long-distance wireless telegraphy system.

Multiple choice
  1. Waterloo

  2. Waterman

  3. Gutenberg

  4. Sholes

  5. J.l Baird

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Lewis Edson Waterman is credited with inventing the first practical fountain pen in 1884, which featured a reliable ink feed system.

Multiple choice
  1. Neil Bohr

  2. William Harvey

  3. William Ramsay

  4. Lavoiser

  5. None of these

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Oxygen was independently discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestley, but Antoine Lavoisier is credited with naming it and recognizing its role in combustion.

Multiple choice
  1. De Candolle

  2. John Lindley

  3. Bentham and Hooker

  4. Henri Baillon

  5. -

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C Correct answer
Explanation

These together published a joint system of classification containing 202 orders of monumental work "Genera Plantarum".

Multiple choice
  1. Robert Koch

  2. Robert Alexander

  3. Robert Peterson

  4. None of these

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Robert Koch, a German physician and microbiologist, identified the causative agent of cholera, Vibrio cholerae, in 1883.

Multiple choice
  1. Elisha G. Otis

  2. Joseph Aspdin

  3. Richard Trevithick

  4. Sir Frank Whittle

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Richard Trevithick is credited with building the first working railway steam locomotive in 1804.