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Test: Discovery and Inventions - Question 1

For over 500 years, paper was only available and sold as single sheets. In 1902, an inventive Australian used half size sheets of paper, a bit of glue and cardboard to create the what?

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Birchall's of Launceston in Tasmania started selling the world�s first notepads, calling them 'Silvercity Writing Tablets' after J A Birchall thought it would be a good idea to back sheets of paper with cardboard and glue them together at the top. His British paper suppliers weren�t so keen, but, they were persuaded by Birchall that it was a good idea!
Test: Discovery and Inventions - Question 2

Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?

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Viscount Charles 'Turnip' Townsend developed this revolutionary concept.
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Test: Discovery and Inventions - Question 3

CORN FLAKES - Who made them first?

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Will Keith Kellogg discovered the corn flake, by mistake, in 1906. They were the result of an experiment which went wrong.
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William Frederick is credited with the invention of the modern frisbee in the mid 1950's. In 1957 the Wham-O Company bought his idea and the rest is history. They named the toy after William Frisbie who was a ________?

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Frisbie made a brand of pies that were popular with Yale students in the 1870's. After eating the pies they would throw the pie tins through the air.
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Who came up with the idea for INSTANT MASHED POTATO?

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Instant mash was invented by Edward A Asselbergs, a Canadian, in 1962. The mash is actually dehydyated potato flakes.
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For whom high heeled shoes were invented?

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King Louis XIV was very short and didn't like looking up at people he spoke to, so he had a tall pair of shoes made for him.
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What toy did George Lerner create for Hasbro company in 1952?

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This was a plastic potato-shaped body on which you could stick different features, such as eyes, ears, etc.
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What African-American inventor received 5 patents in the field of shoemaking?

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Matzeliger never benefited financially from his inventions. He died in 1889 at the age of 37 from tuberculosis.
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It travels over land and water. Who invented the HOVERCRAFT?

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Christopher Cockerell invented the hovercraft in 1956. His early experiments with the idea involved a cat food tin, a coffee tin and an industrial blower.
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In which decade was the AEEE (now the IEEE) founded?

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The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, founded 1912) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE, founded 1884).
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