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Who Invented That?

Credit where it is due: match documented breakthroughs to the people behind them.

Free to use with your own team, courtesy of WorkplaceHero - workplacehero.co.uk

Question sheet

1. Who patented a practical dishwashing machine in 1886?
- A. Marion Donovan
- B. Mary Anderson
- C. Josephine Garis Cochran
- D. Margaret Knight
2. Whose 1903 patent described a driver-operated windscreen-cleaning device?
- A. Josephine Garis Cochran
- B. Mary Anderson
- C. Florence Lawrence
- D. Charlotte Bridgwood
3. Whose polymer research produced the breakthrough behind Kevlar?
- A. Stephanie Kwolek
- B. Katharine Blodgett
- C. Ruth Benerito
- D. Edith Flanigen
4. Who developed the synthetic resin Bakelite?
- A. Charles Goodyear
- B. Alexander Parkes
- C. Wallace Carothers
- D. Leo Baekeland
5. Who invented the laserphaco device and technique for cataract removal?
- A. Gertrude Elion
- B. Rosalyn Yalow
- C. Patricia Bath
- D. Gerty Cori
6. Who invented the waterproof nappy cover called the Boater?
- A. Josephine Garis Cochran
- B. Marion Donovan
- C. Bette Nesmith Graham
- D. Mary Kenner
7. Who invented the Super Soaker water blaster?
- A. Lonnie Johnson
- B. Ralph Baer
- C. George Parker
- D. Marvin Glass
8. Who co-invented the electret microphone with Gerhard Sessler?
- A. Ray Dolby
- B. Edwin Armstrong
- C. Amar Bose
- D. James West
9. Who invented a computer-controlled telephone switching system to manage call traffic?
- A. Grace Hopper
- B. Radia Perlman
- C. Erna Schneider Hoover
- D. Sophie Wilson
10. Whose computer-mouse patent grew out of the NLS interactive-computing project?
- A. J. C. R. Licklider
- B. Douglas Engelbart
- C. Alan Kay
- D. Ivan Sutherland
11. Whose Brown Box project became the basis of the Magnavox Odyssey?
- A. Ralph Baer
- B. Nolan Bushnell
- C. Gunpei Yokoi
- D. Jerry Lawson
12. Who developed the successful mobile refrigeration system associated with Thermo King?
- A. Clarence Birdseye
- B. John Gorrie
- C. Willis Carrier
- D. Frederick McKinley Jones

Answer sheet (for the quizmaster)

1. C - Josephine Garis Cochran
Cochran developed and commercialised a practical dishwasher, with mechanical assistance from George Butters.
2. B - Mary Anderson
Anderson designed a lever-operated arm and rubber blade for clearing a vehicle windscreen.
3. A - Stephanie Kwolek
Kwolek studied liquid-crystalline polymers, leading to the high-strength para-aramid fibre.
4. D - Leo Baekeland
Baekeland synthesised Bakelite, used in electrical insulation and many moulded products.
5. C - Patricia Bath
Bath developed laserphaco and received her first US patent for it in 1988.
6. B - Marion Donovan
Donovan used snap fasteners and waterproof material. This is not a claim that she invented every disposable nappy.
7. A - Lonnie Johnson
Johnson developed the compressed-air water blaster that became the Super Soaker.
8. D - James West
West and Sessler developed the compact electret microphone at Bell Labs.
9. C - Erna Schneider Hoover
Hoover developed stored-program control that helped telephone exchanges handle heavy demand.
10. B - Douglas Engelbart
Engelbart developed the mouse concept within NLS. His colleagues contributed to the working hardware.
11. A - Ralph Baer
Baer developed the home-console project licensed to Magnavox, which released the Odyssey in 1972.
12. D - Frederick McKinley Jones
Jones developed mobile refrigeration technology that greatly improved transport of perishable goods.