• 1. 
    Which American inventor introduced a hoe-shaped safety razor with a guard along one edge in 1880?

  • Charles Goodyear
  • Jan Ernst Matzeliger
  • King Camp Gillette
  • Henry Blair
  • 2. 
    Which is a method of graphic tracing of the electric current generated by heart muscle during a heartbeat, first developed by Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven in 1903?

  • electrophysiology
  • echocardiography
  • electrocardiography
  • coronary artery bypass
  • 3. 
    Which was the first practical color photography process, introduced in France in 1907 by Auguste and Louis Lumière?

  • camera obscura
  • Autochrome
  • photogram
  • daguerreotype
  • 4. 
    In 1900 who introduced the Brownie, a simple box camera with a removable film container?

  • William Henry Fox Talbot
  • Nicéphore Niépce
  • Josephine Cochrane
  • George Eastman
  • 5. 
    In 1908 Swiss chemist Jacques E. Brandenberger designed a machine for continuous production of which strong transparent film?

  • cellulite
  • nylon
  • celluloid
  • cellophane
  • 6. 
    In 1914 the world’s first two electric traffic lights were installed in which American city?

  • Cleveland
  • Chicago
  • New York City
  • Boston
  • 7. 
    In 1923 which Russian-born American electronic engineer filed a patent for an all-electronic television system, which had cathode-ray tubes for both transmitting and receiving images?

  • Vladimir Zworykin
  • Pavel Yablochkov
  • Sofya Kovalevskaya
  • Aleksandr Prokhorov
  • 8. 
    Which American physicist created a one-step process for developing and printing photographs?

  • George Eastman
  • Mary Moorman
  • Frederick Scott Archer
  • Edwin Herbert Land
  • 9. 
    Which electrostatic dry-copying process, invented by Chester F. Carlson, was used to quickly create reproductions of documents?

  • historiography
  • tomography
  • chromatography
  • xerography
  • 10. 
    Who invented the first contact lens, made of glass and developed to correct irregular astigmatism, in 1887?

  • Daza de Valdes
  • Willebrord Snell
  • Roger Riis
  • Adolf Fick
  • 11. 
    In the 1940s Swiss engineer George de Mestral saw tiny hooks on the burrs clinging to his hunting jacket and invented the hook-and-loop fastener system known as what?

  • Velcro
  • button fly
  • zipper
  • snaps
  • 12. 
    Which diagnostic imaging method uses a low-dose beam of X-rays that crosses the body in a single plane at many different angles?

  • planar radiography
  • computed tomography (CT) scan
  • ultrasound
  • magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
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