Tag: science & technology

Faraday is famous for electromagnetic induction and electrolysis laws, not gas diffusion. The other pairs are correct: Roentgen discovered X-rays, Newton formulated the law of gravitation, and Pasteur founded modern bacteriology.

MIPS is a standard computer architecture term that measures processor performance by counting how many millions of instructions a CPU can execute per second. It's commonly used as a benchmark for comparing processor speeds.

MPEG is the Moving Picture Experts Group, which develops standards for video and audio compression. The 'P' stands for 'Picture,' not 'Photo' - this is a common misconception since both words relate to images.

NTFS (New Technology File System) is Microsoft's proprietary file system that was introduced with Windows NT. It offers features like file security, compression, and encryption that were improvements over the older FAT file systems.

PHP is a recursive acronym that originally stood for 'Personal Home Page' but now means 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.' It's a server-side scripting language designed for web development, which explains the 'Hypertext' and 'Preprocessor' parts of its name.

SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. It's a protocol for exchanging structured information in web services using XML. The term 'Object' refers to the data structures being accessed, not 'Service Object'.

Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline in the 17th century, which was one of the earliest mechanical calculators. It could perform addition and subtraction, making him a pioneer in the history of computing machines.

This question tests knowledge of inventor-invention pairs. Charles Darwin is correctly associated with the theory of Evolution by natural selection. The other pairs are incorrect: Remington didn't invent the typewriter, Dunlop didn't invent dynamite, and Harway isn't associated with airplanes.