Test: Scientists and Inventors - Class 8 MCQ

Charles Babbage invented the first mechanical computer, which led to the development of modern computing devices.

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays in 1895, earning the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

Thomas Edison is credited with the invention of the electric bulb, along with other discoveries like the phonograph and direct current generator.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone while experimenting with the telegraph.

Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic, which revolutionized medicine.

Guglielmo Marconi is known as the father of long-distance radio transmission and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909.

Albert Einstein proposed the theory of relativity, which transformed concepts of space and time.

Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine, which is widely used in transportation and industry today.

Marie Curie was a pioneering physicist and chemist known for her discovery of radium and her research on radioactivity.

The Wright brothers built and flew the first practical airplane in 1903.

Konrad Zuse built the Z1, the world's first programmable computer.

Emile Berliner invented the gramophone, also known as the record player.

 Samuel Morse co-developed the Morse Code, a method of encoding messages in dots and dashes.

Frederick Banting, along with Charles Best, discovered insulin, a life-saving treatment for diabetes.

C.V. Raman discovered the Raman Effect, which explains the scattering of light. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.