Important Inventions and Discoveries in World – Exercise – 1

46. Who perfected GENETIC ENGINEERING?

(a) Cohen & Boyer
(b) Hunt & Davids
(c) Sinclair & Roberts
(d) Jaysson & Simons

Answer
Answer : (a)
Explanation
Explanation :  Genetic Engineering, the technique of DNA cloning was perfected by Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer in 1973. Let us discuss.
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47. FROZEN FOOD – Who discovered the first practical method of freezing food?

(a) C. Birdseye
(b) F. Rozenosh
(c) G. Findus
(d) R. Scott

Answer
Answer : (a)
Explanation
Explanation :  In the 1920s Clarence Birdseye discovered that if food was flash-frozen under pressure, it would freeze without the formation of ice crystals. Let us discuss.
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48. This English inventor is known as the ‘Father of Computing.’

(a) Philo Farnsworth
(b) J. Presper Eckert
(c) John Mauchly
(d) Charles Babbage

Answer
Answer : (d)
Explanation
Explanation :  Mauchly and Eckert invented the ENIAC computer. Farnsworth was a pioneer of early television. Let us discuss.
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49. Who is the only U.S. President to invent and patent something?

(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Theodore Roosevelt
(c) Thomas Jefferson
(d) Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer
Answer : (a)
Explanation
Explanation :  In 1849 Honest Abe invented a method to aid ships that got stuck on sandbars. He called it A Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals. It was never used. Let us discuss.
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50. What invention is credited to the Russian born American inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin?

(a) Telegraph
(b) Radio
(c) Television
(d) Dishwasher

Answer
Answer : (c)
Explanation
Explanation :  Zworykin invented both the tube (iconoscope) for transmission and the receiver (kinescope) in 1923 and 1924, respectively. Let us discuss.
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