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Question: Who was a British logician and philosopher. He is famous for introducing the Venn diagram, which is used in many fields, including set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science?
Answer: John Venn

Question: Who was an Inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902.
Answer: Cyrus Hall McCormick

Question: The inventors, and aviation pioneers who were credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane
Answer: The wright brothers

Question: Who was the Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine?
Answer: James Watt

Question: Who made the first Cotten Gin?
Answer: Eli Whitney

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Question: Who was a Scottish engineer who is famed for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe?
Answer: Henry Bell

Question: Who was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb?
Answer: Thomas Alva Edison

Question: Who was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production?
Answer: Henry Ford

Question: Who was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer?
Answer: Elias Howe

Question: The american engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.
Answer: Robert Fulton

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Question: Who was an English inventor. He graduated from Oxford University very early and went on to invent the power loom.
Answer: Edmund Cartwright

Question: Who was a Cornish chemist and inventor. He is best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine.
Answer: Sir Humphry Davy

Question: Who was an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, the first successful machine gun.?
Answer: Richard Jordan Gatling

Question: An American painter who turned inventor?
Answer: Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Question: Who was an American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was also the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
Answer: Isaac Merritt Singer

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Question: Who was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which opened in 1830?
Answer: George Stephenson

Question: Who was an American professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926?
Answer: Robert Hutchings Goddard

Question: Who was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry?
Answer: George Westinghouse

Question: Who was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
Answer: Thomas Alva Edison

Question: Who was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Belll

Inventors

Question: Who was an American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839, which he improved while living and working in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1844, and for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844?
Answer: Charles Goodyear

Question: Who was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization?
Answer: Louis Pasteur

Question: Who was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream?
Answer: George Eastman

Question: Who was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
Answer: Nikola Tesla

Question: Who was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine?
Answer: Rudolf Diesel