Historical inventors by invention and picture - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Light bulb, 1880 (in America)	Thomas Edison	95%
Telephone, 1876	Alexander Graham Bell	93%
Alternating current motor and transformer, 1888	Nikola Tesla	93%
Airplane, 1903	Orville and Wilbur Wright	93%
Dynamite, 1866	Alfred Nobel	90%
Printing press, ca. 1450	Johannes Gutenberg	86%
Radio, 1897	Guglielmo Marconi	81%
Improved steam engine, 1775	James Watt	69%
Atomic bomb (director at Los Alamos), 1945	J. Robert Oppenheimer	67%
Automobile, 1886	Karl Benz	64%
Smallpox vaccine, 1796	Edward Jenner	62%
X-ray machine, 1895	Wilhelm Röntgen	62%
Electric battery, 1800	Alessandro Volta	60%
Polio vaccine, 1955	Jonas Salk	52%
Nuclear reactor (Chicago Pile-1), 1942	Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard	48%
First electric generator, 1831	Michael Faraday	40%
Space rocket (long-range guided ballistic missile), 1942	Wernher von Braun	38%
World Wide Web and first web browser, 1990	Tim Berners-Lee	31%
First electromechanical television, 1925	John Logie Baird	26%
Transistor, 1947	William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain	21%
Pendulum clock, 1656	Christiaan Huygens	19%
Automatic machine gun, 1884	Hiram Maxim	12%
Internet (ARPANET), 1969	Lawrence Roberts	10%
Wireless internet (Wi-Fi), 1997	Vic Hayes	10%
Modern dynamo electric generator, 1867	Werner von Siemens	10%
Integrated circuit (microchip), 1958	Jack Kilby	7%
Compact Disc, 1980	Kees Schouhamer Immink and Toshitada Doi	7%
First programmable electronic computer (Colossus Mark 1), 1943	Tommy Flowers	7%