Can you name the inventors AND their inventions?

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INSTRUCTIONS: Type in the inventor's first and last name AND the invention. Ex: "Orville Wright airplane"
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Inventor's first name
Alfred
Benjamin
Blaise
Dorothy
Eli
Elias
Enrico
Frank
George
Gregory
Guglielmo
Igor
Jacques
James
Johannes
John
John
King Camp
Levi
Nikola
Robert
Samuel
Samuel
Thomas
Tim
Wilhelm

Inventor's last name
Berners-Lee
Colt
Cousteau
Deere
Eastman
Edison
Fermi
Franklin
Fulton
Gerber
Gillette
Gutenberg
Howe
Kellogg
Marconi
Morse
Naismith
Nobel
Pascal
Pincus
Röntgen
Sikorsky
Strauss
Tesla
Whitney
Whittle

Invention
adding machine
alternating current
baby food
basketball
bifocal lens
blue jeans
cereal flakes
cotton gin
dynamite
helicopter
jet engine
nuclear reactor
oral contraceptive
phonograph
printing press
radio
revolver
roll film
safety razor
scuba gear
sewing machine
steamboat
steel plow
telegraph
world wide web
X-ray imaging

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Inventors-Inventions Match Quiz

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Created Aug 30, 2010 in Science
Featured Oct 2, 2010
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	confused:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 04:22 GMT		17 points
	Very nice! Putting in the first names made it much more interesting and challenging.

	Kicking222:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 04:28 GMT		1 point
	Oh, LTH, yet another wonderful game. It's just about perfect- I can't think of anything wrong with this quiz, or any way that it could possibly better. (OK, one thing that could've been better- if you had included an invention Edison created in my town, as opposed to in the other town where he prominently lived.) I've given every quiz of yours that I've ever played a 5/5, but if I could, I'd give this one a 6.

	kingstony:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 04:30 GMT		1 point
	great quiz, I was guessing so many of the christian names, it was interesting and worth it

	LTH:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 04:49 GMT		5 points
	Special thanks to SproutCM for inspiring the format of this quiz.

	TJL:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 04:51 GMT		32 points
	Al Gore-Internet should at least be a bonus

	Pogues:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 04:57 GMT		3 points
	Great quiz...I surprised myself with some of my matches made. I was just trying trios and realized how stupid I was for not actually knowing some until they popped.

	jtrichey:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 05:09 GMT		32 points
	Love the idea. A problem for me though--why did the quiz sometimes accept just the first initial and sometimes did not? This screwed me up more than if you had made us type out the whole name

	MoneyGrip:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 05:40 GMT		2 points
	Fun, fun, fun.

	tvfan2:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 05:49 GMT		13 points
	Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line. The Ford Motor Company merely systematized and perfected an idea which had been in place for some time. Indeed, the Ford people are very open about the fact that they cribbed the idea from the "disassembly" lines used by meat packing companies to dress slaughtered animals.

	EmYanks2001:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 05:59 GMT		39 points
	I agree with jtrichey -- I wasted so much time pairing up different first names to the inventors i knew, and then i finally realized 1st initial works... well imagine my suprise when kellogg didnt work with any name for cereal -- i chalked that up to a trick question, but when gillette didnt come up for shaver, and b franklin didnt work for anything, i knew i needed to type out the first names for those... please keep this consistent, it definitely screwed me up!! But other than that -- great quiz :)

	DTNelson:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 06:31 GMT		4 points
	Hans von Ohain is given co-credit for inventing the jet engine. Frank Whittle developed the centrifugal-compressor-type jet engine in Britain while von Ohain was developing the axial-compressor-type in Germany. Neither knew of the other's work. Whittle's engine ran on the test stand first, while von Ohain's was the first to power an aircraft in flight. The centrifugal-compressor jet engine was quickly supplanted by the axial-compressor jet engine after World War II, and we use the axial-compressor type today.

	ekedolphin:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 06:34 GMT		0 points
	What a great quiz! I made it a favor.

	franz:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 06:59 GMT		0 points
	Got stuck on Deere, Pincus and Whittle. Still had 6 minutes left so I went and tried out every combination until everything fits. Great quiz.

	zlb33:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 07:33 GMT		0 points
	i always laugh when i see the alfred nobel clue. thats irony

	redcrossrobbery:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 07:45 GMT		29 points
	Take out the radio one... it's a controversial question, but most sources say it was actually Tesla who made the first legitimate "radio". I'm pretty sure Tesla invented everything on this list first... I kid about that part, but he was ****ing incredible...

	ArrogantDuck:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 12:47 GMT		1 point
	Er... Thomas Saint's invention of the Sewing Machine pre-dates Howe's by 56 years.

	sporcling123:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 13:09 GMT		1 point
	It seems like every invention had a company named after the inventor's last name. The first name on the other hand...that's a different story.

	westing1992:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 13:33 GMT		7 points
	sporcling123: What about Levi Strauss?

	sporcling123:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 14:18 GMT		0 points
	True, that's the only exception though where the easy name was reversed.

	cocky:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 14:43 GMT		-1 points
	I got all but four. The only fist names I had to guess on were Kellogg and Gerber. I didn't know who invented the birth control pill, but was thinking that was a woman, so I didn't try Dorothy Gerber until last. I had about a minute and half left with the last four, but didn't want to type random combos. Strangely, I put Frank Whittle and tried him with the web before giving up the project. Great quiz

	mathboy0:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 15:12 GMT		0 points
	As tvfan2 said, Ford didn't invent the assembly line, he was merely the first to use it effectively in the automobile industry.

	Cat_Girl:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 15:19 GMT		2 points
	First initial only worked if it was the only first name with that initial. I actually got a few just by seeing the first name--Igor had to be Sikorsky, Enrico had to be Fermi, and I knew Thomas Edison had to be on this quiz, so I just started typing his name and looked for either the light bulb or the phonograph. Really excellent quiz.

	mininimi:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 16:17 GMT		1 point
	did anyone else have problems with the results on the next page? Mine gave me only pars of the ones i got and parts of the three that i didnt get

	mininimi:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 16:18 GMT		2 points
	looking at the results a lot of people are getting only parts because for each triplet, there are different amount guessed

	MikeN:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 16:32 GMT		-1 points
	Peter Parker webslinger?

	VickyC:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 17:52 GMT		5 points
	Edison is currently showing 81.6%, 81.1% and 80.7%, and he's not the only one to have different figures! Given that we had to enter all three answers simultaneously, how did that happen? :s

	barnztormre:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 18:02 GMT		1 point
	I like how you had to use your powers of logic: Gillette = razor, Gerber = baby food, etc.

	chikka2:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 18:52 GMT		2 points
	Inventing a sports game(basketball)seems at first a misfit, but it IS an invention; in my city we feel proud of Naismith, born only 40 miles from here. Superb quiz! 5 globes gladly given.

	chriskotx:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 21:13 GMT		-2 points
	How could anyone not rate this a 5 ?

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	titanmiller:	Oct 2nd, 2010 at 22:20 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz once I figured out how to answer it.

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