Important Inventions and Discoveries in World – Exercise – 2

51. What African-American inventor received 5 patents in the field of shoemaking?

(a) Elijah McCoy
(b) Jan Ernst Matzeliger
(c) Ernest Just
(d) Lewis Latimer

Answer
Answer : (b)
Explanation
Explanation :  Matzeliger never benefited financially from his inventions. He died in 1889 at the age of 37 from tuberculosis. Let us discuss.
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52. This part-time race car driver invented the bucket seat in 1969. Who was he??

(a) Steve McQueen
(b) Harrison Frazier
(c) Paul Newman
(d) John Wayne

Answer
Answer : (a)
Explanation
Explanation :  McQueen died in 1980 from a rare form of lung cancer. Let us discuss.
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53. The Manhattan Project was started by President Roosevelt in 1942 to ensure that the U.S. beat the Germans in developing a nuclear bomb. Whom did Roosevelt appoint as scientific head the Manhattan Project?

(a) Robert Oppenheimer
(b) James B. Conant
(c) Leslie R. Groves
(d) Vannevar Bush

Answer
Answer : (a)
Explanation
Explanation :  Leslie R. Groves, however, was the military head of the project and the overall supremo, while Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director. The world’s first atomic bomb was exploded in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. Let us discuss.
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54. Who is the English physicist responsible for the ‘Big Bang Theory’?

(a) Albert Einstein
(b) Michael Skube
(c) George Gamow
(d) Roger Penrose

Answer
Answer : (c)
Explanation
Explanation :  George Gamow. Gamow, who died in 1968, was a physicist, who published “Thirty Years that Shook Physics”. Let us discuss.
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55. This African-American woman physical therapist worked with soldiers disabled in World War II. She invented a device that helped the disabled to eat by delivering food through a tube to a mouthpiece.

(a) Bessie Blount
(b) Marjorie Joyner
(c) Mae Jamison
(d) Beulah Henry

Answer
Answer : (a)
Explanation
Explanation :  Unfortunately Blount could never get anyone to buy her invention. Finally, in 1952 she sold the rights to the French government. Let us discuss.
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