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1. Invented the printing press
in 1450
2. Invented the bifocal lens in
1780
3. Invented dynamite in 1866;
has series of famous awards named after him
4. Invented the talking
phonograph in 1877
5. Invented windshield wipers
in 1903
6. The person who submitted his
own telephone patent two hours after Bell in 1876
7. The only U.S. president to
receive a trademark
8. The only U.S. president to
receive a patent
9. Person who said, "Oh, I see
they’ve got the Internet on computers now"
10. President who said of the
telephone in 1876, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever
want to use one of them?"
11. Writer who is credited with
saying, "Necessity is the mother of invention" (What he really said
was, "Invention breeds invention.")
12. Entertainer whose name is
on a patent for anti-gravity shoes (It's not Homer Simpson.)
13. Group of people whose code
helped us win World War II
14. Inventor of Liquid Paper
whose son was a member of the 1960s band The Monkees
15. City where the U.S. patent
office is located
16. The famous inventor who
designed elaborate methods to accomplish simple tasks
17. Writer who earned more
money from his self-pasting scrapbook invention in 1873 than he did
from his writing that year
18. Country where golf was
invented around 1450
19. Post-It Notes®,
Silly Putty®
and Ivory Soap®
all fall into this category
20. New Jersey city where
Thomas Edison built his lab
21. Invented the seed drill in
1701
22. Invented the lightning rod
in 1752
23. Invented the cotton gin in
1793
24. Invented the reaper in 1831
25. Invented vulcanized rubber
in 1839
26. Invented the two-cycle
automobile engine in 1879
27. Invented the radio in 1895
28. Invented air conditioning
in 1911
29. Invented quick-frozen food
in 1924
30.
Invented the artificial heart in 1982
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