Famous Inventions - Statistics

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Invention	Date	Inventor	% Correct
4) Telephone	1876	Alexander Graham Bell	94%
1) Printing Press	1450	Johannes Gutenberg	94%
19) Braille system	1824	Louis Braille	88%
11) Powered airplane	1903	Wright Brothers	82%
5) Penicillin	1928	Alexander Fleming	76%
7) Lightning rod	1750	Benjamin Franklin	76%
8) Assembly line	1913	Henry Ford	71%
17) Polonium/Radium	1898	Marie Curie	71%
6) Phonograph	1877	Thomas Edison	71%
24) Revolver	1836	Samuel Colt	65%
10) Telegraph	1835	Samuel Morse	65%
12) Cotton Gin	1793	Eli Whitney	53%
13) Polio vaccine	1955	Jonas Salk	53%
18) Gas powered automobile	1885	Karl Benz	53%
2) AC induction motor	1888	Nikola Tesla	53%
16) X Rays	1895	Wilhelm Rontgen	53%
3) Basketball	1891	James Naismith	41%
9) Peanut synthetics/Jesup wagon	1890s-1906	George Washington Carver	29%
22) Electronic TV	1928	Philo Farnsworth	24%
20) Portable Fridge units	1940	Frederick Jones	0%
23) Traffic signal	1923	Garrett Morgan	0%
14) Pneumatic tire	1888	John Dunlop	0%
25) Windshield wipers	1903	Mary Anderson	0%
21) Ironing Board	1892	Sarah Boone	0%
15) Volleyball	1895	William Morgan	0%

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