Tag: science & technology

Alessandro Volta created the first true battery (Voltaic Pile) in 1800, producing steady electrical current. Edison developed light bulbs, Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, and 'None' is incorrect.

Franklin invented bifocals, lightning rod, and odometer, but electrical induction was discovered by Michael Faraday through electromagnetic experiments. The question asks which is NOT Franklin's invention.

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, the first device capable of recording and reproducing sound. Marconi developed radio, Grote Reber built radio telescopes, and Galileo was an astronomer.

Michael Faraday discovered diamagnetism in 1845 when he noticed that many materials exhibit a weak repulsion from a magnetic field. Fleming is known for his left/right-hand rules, and Edison for the lightbulb.

Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, not Gates and his father. Option C correctly identifies this as 'almost fact' with the proper correction.

Microsoft's stock options program during its rapid growth in the 1980s and 1990s created approximately 12,000 employee millionaires, making this one of the largest wealth-creation events in corporate history. This fact is widely documented in business literature about the tech boom.

Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named their search engine 'BackRub' in 1996 because it focused on backlinks. The project was later renamed Google in 1997, a play on the mathematical term 'googol.'

'Real solutions for real people' was not Microsoft's official corporate tagline. Microsoft's well-known taglines include 'Where do you want to go today?' and 'Your potential. Our passion.' The statement is therefore fiction.

Force is a vector quantity because it has both magnitude and direction, as described by Newton's laws. Scalar quantities like length, weight, and time have only magnitude without any directional component. Therefore, force is the correct answer as it is not a scalar.