History Quiz: Science

Volta invented the Voltaic pile, an early battery, and made several other advances in the field of electrical science. As did Faraday, who is probably most famous for his Faraday cage.

Archimedes' screws existed in Ancient Egypt since before the 3rd Century BC. Archimedes described the technology in 234 BC, after a visit to Egypt, but never claimed credit for its invention. However, 200 years later, the historian Diodorus attributed the invention to Archimedes.

They extracted both (radium in the form of radium chloride) from uraninite (known then as pitchblende) in 1898. Uranium was discovered by German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth in 1789 and francium was discovered by Marguerite Perey, a student of Marie Curie, in 1939.

They contain giant triangular gnomon (the bit that casts the shadow) with the hypotenuse parallel to the Earth's axis. On each side of the gnomon is a quadrant of a circle, parallel to the plane of the equator.

One of the things he wanted to discover was the location of the philosopher's stone.

The reason wasn't for the animals' well-being, but so that the exhibits seemed more realistic. Bronx Zoo and Jersey Zoo were more focussed on conservation and the animals' wellbeing.

He conceived the principle of complementarity, which holds that objects have certain pairs of complementary properties which cannot all be observed or measured simultaneously. John Dalton introduced the atomic theory into chemistry, while Francis Crick co-authored the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule.

The former focussed on philosophy and science, while the latter focussed on medicine.

He isolated a number of elements using electricity, including potassium, sodium and calcium.

He called is KS steel. The "KS" stands for Kichizaemon Sumitomo, who provided financial support for Kotaro Honda's research.

These predictions were used for calendar and astrological purposes.

He was a friar who conducted experiments with pea plants, which established many of the rules of heredity.

Mariner 9 was the first, also making it the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. It reached Mars on 14th November 1971, only weeks before the Soviet probes Mars 2 and Mars 3.

He was born 27th December 1571. Copernicus was born on 19th February 1473 and Galileo was born on 15th February 1564.

This entails that the motion of any object is only meaningful when given relative to something else. He described it as: "Just as a man in a boat moving forward sees the stationary objects (on the shore) as moving backward, just so are the stationary stars seen by the people on earth as moving exactly towards the west."