Landmark Inventions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries: Multiple Choice

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01The first successful long-distance transmission of radio waves was achieved in 1901 by which Italian inventor?
02Philo Farnsworth is credited with inventing the first fully electronic version of what device, which he first demonstrated in 1927?
03On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first sustained, controlled, and powered heavier-than-air flight in what aircraft?
04Who is credited with inventing the first practical and efficient steam engine in the 1770s, a key development in the Industrial Revolution?
05In 1913, Henry Ford's company revolutionized industrial manufacturing by introducing the moving ______ for the mass production of the Model T car.
06In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered the world's first mass-produced antibiotic, which he named what?
07What semiconductor device, invented in 1947 at Bell Labs, became the fundamental building block of modern electronics, replacing the bulky vacuum tube?
08Which inventor is most famously associated with the development of the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb in 1879?
09Louis Daguerre, building on the work of Nicéphore Niépce, introduced the first publicly available photographic process in 1839, known as the what?
10In 1796, Edward Jenner developed the world's first successful vaccine by using cowpox material to create immunity against what deadly disease?
11Alexander Graham Bell was granted a U.S. patent in 1876 for what revolutionary communication device?
12In 1794, Eli Whitney patented which invention that dramatically increased the productivity of separating cotton fibers from their seeds?