| There are more obvious errors in this quiz than any other that I have seen published in Sporcle. Many of the errors are discussed above. With the benefit of my general knowledge and half an hour of research I would correct the following. The telephone was probably invented by Elisha Gray and stolen by Alexander Graham Bell who bribed a Patent Office official. The aeroplane was invented by John Stringfellow in 1848 and there were numerous other developers of planes that flew before the Wright Brothers. Lightning rods had been in use for centuries in Asia and decades in Europe before Franklin introduced the idea to the USA. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invented the first practical phongraph (which he called a phoneautograph). Catherine Littlefield Greene may have invented the cotton gin; however, Eli Whitney did develop the first modern practical version. Hans Stopler developed the first known revolver called an arquebus in 1597. There were hundreds of other types developed in the subsequent two and a half centuries before Colt developed a particular patent. Primitive telegraphs were in use for decades until the first commercial electric telegraph was developed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone who patented it in the same year that Morse was granted his first patent. Rabies immunisation was jointly devoloped by Pasteur and Émile Roux. Fleming issolated penicillin but is was developed as an antibiotic by Howard Walter Florey, Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley. There were working, if impracticable automobiles powered by steam, electricity and primitive internal combustion engines before Benz developed the first practical modern car. Jacques and Louis Breguet deleoped the first modern helicopter around 1907, although models dated back for centruies before that. Sikorsky helped to develop the modern industry but cannot remotely be considered the inventor. Wilhelm Schickard invented the first automatic calculator (or adding machine) 19 years before Blaise Pascal's version. M |
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