Famous Inventors - Statistics

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Invention	Year	Inventor	% Correct
Lightbulb (practical)	1878	Thomas Edison	92%
Telephone	1876	Alexander Graham Bell	87%
Airplane	1903	Wright Brothers	81%
Psychoanalysis	1890s	Sigmund Freud	73%
Lightning Rod	1749	Benjamin Franklin	66%
Dynamite	1867	Alfred Nobel	63%
Alternating Current (transmission system)	1887	Nikola Tesla	54%
Cornflakes	1894	John Kellogg	52%
Revolver	1836	Samuel Colt	50%
Blue Jeans	1873	Levi Strauss	48%
Cotton Gin	1793	Eli Whitney	41%
Radio (practical)	1890s	Guglielmo Marconi	39%
Telegraph (practical)	1844	Samuel Morse	37%
Periodic Table	1869	Dmitri Mendeleev	36%
Steam Engine (condensation chamber)	1765	James Watt	32%
Polio Vaccine	1952	Jonas Salk	32%
Machine Gun	1862	Richard Gatling	27%
Basketball	1891	James Naismith	24%
Vulcanized Rubber	1839	Charles Goodyear	23%
Geodesic Dome	1948	Buckminster Fuller	12%

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