Who Invented That? Part II - Statistics

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Invention	Year (circa)	Inventor	% Correct
Printing Press	1439	Johannes Gutenberg	90%
Bifocal glasses	1750	Benjamin Franklin	80%
Atomic Bomb (project lead)	1945	J. Robert Oppenheimer	70%
AK-47	1946	Mikhail Kalashnikov	70%
Phonograph	1877	Thomas Alva Edison	70%
Screw for lifting water	200 BCE	Archimedes	60%
Penicillin	1928	Alexander Fleming	50%
Hot Air Balloon (manned)	1783	Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier	50%
World Wide Web	1989	Tim Berners-Lee	50%
Helicopter (practical)	1939	Igor Sikorsky	40%
Petrol Automobile	1885	Karl Benz	40%
Liquid-Fueled Rocket	1926	Dr. Robert H. Goddard	30%
Nuclear Reactor	1942	Enrico Fermi	30%
Aqua-Lung	1943	Jacques Cousteau	30%
A-4 / V-2 Rocket	1942	Werner von Braun	30%
X-Rays	1895	Wilhelm Roentgen	30%
AR-10, AR-15, AR-18	1960	Eugene Stoner	20%
Hook and Loop (Velcro)	1941	George de Mestral	10%
Air Brakes	1868	George Westinghouse	10%
Submarine (combat victory)	1863	Horace Lawson Hunley	10%
Kevlar	1965	Stephanie Kwolek	10%
DMC-12	1981	John DeLorean	0%

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