• 1. 
    In 1698 which English engineer and inventor built and patented the first steam engine?

  • John Napier
  • Isaac Newton
  • Robert Hooke
  • Thomas Savery
  • 2. 
    Which was an English ironmaster who was the first person to successfully smelt iron ore with the coal product coke?

  • Abraham Darby
  • Robert Thompson Crawshay
  • Anthony Bacon
  • Thomas Andrews
  • 3. 
    In 1835 which American inventor patented the revolver?

  • Henry Deringer
  • Samuel Colt
  • John Moses Browning
  • Eliphalet Remington II
  • 4. 
    In 1856 which inventor and engineer developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively?

  • Benjamin Huntsman
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Henry Bessemer
  • Alfred Krupp
  • 5. 
    Which inventor and engineer discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery?

  • Gustav Waldemar Elmen
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Charles Goodyear
  • Thomas Edison
  • 6. 
    In 1882 the world’s first hydroelectric central station, which used water turbines to create energy, was built in which American city?

  • Gary, Indiana
  • Detroit, Michigan
  • Springfield, Illinois
  • Appleton, Wisconsin
  • 7. 
    Who created the first motor vehicle used as a weapons carrier—a powered quadricycle on which a machine gun was mounted?

  • A.H. Patch
  • Dorr Felt
  • F.R. Simms
  • Alonzo E. Deitz
  • 8. 
    In 1941 which American chemist developed the first commercially practical aerosol container, designed to dispense its liquid contents as a mist or foam?

  • Lyle D. Goodhue
  • John W. Draper
  • Rachel Lloyd
  • George Washington Carver
  • 9. 
    In 1910 which French chemist patented the first commercially feasible neon lamp?

  • Claudine Picardet
  • Georges Claude
  • Léon-Albert Arnaud
  • Brigitte Boisselier
  • 10. 
    In 1891 who patented the first solar hot-water system to be sold commercially?

  • Whitcomb L. Judson
  • Ruth Graves Wakefield
  • John B. McCormick
  • Clarence Kemp
  • 11. 
    Which is credited with the invention of Greek fire, a highly incendiary liquid that was projected from “siphons” onto enemy ships or troops and was almost impossible to extinguish?

  • Pythius of Priene
  • Aristobulus of Cassandreia
  • Callinicus of Heliopolis
  • Hermodorus of Salamis
  • 12. 
    Which was an artillery expert who invented spherical case shot in 1784?

  • Henry Shrapnel
  • Gustavus Adolphus
  • Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
  • Jan, Count Žižka
  • 13. 
    In 1783 which Scottish engineer introduced the horsepower as a unit of work?

  • Mary Fergusson
  • John Logie Baird
  • James Watt
  • James Nasmyth
  • 14. 
    Which weapon, likely of Welsh origin, first came into use in England about 1290?

  • longbow
  • spear
  • crossbow
  • pike
  • 15. 
    In 1652 which city became the site of a small aqueduct system as part of the first waterworks built in England’s American colonies?

  • New York City
  • Baltimore
  • Philadelphia
  • Boston
  • 16. 
    In 1860 which American firearms manufacturer invented the first successful repeating rifle?

  • Samuel Colt
  • Christopher M. Spencer
  • Oliver Fisher Winchester
  • John Moses Browning
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