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General Knowledge Invention Questions with Answers list important discoveries and inventors. Common in SSC, RRB, and Banking exams, they help learners recognize scientific contributions and their inventors

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81. What African-American inventor received 5 patents in the field of shoemaking?

  • Elijah McCoy
  • Jan Ernst Matzeliger
  • Ernest Just
  • Lewis Latimer
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82. It travels over land and water. Who invented the HOVERCRAFT?

  • S. Sperrow
  • O. Stricheg
  • T. Henman
  • C. Cockerell
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83. In which decade was the AEEE (now the IEEE) founded?

  • 1850s
  • 1880s
  • 1930s
  • 1950s
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84. What type of system did Paul Nipkow, John Baird, and Charles Jenkins all invent?

  • Telephone
  • Early Warning
  • Electricity
  • Television
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85. What Sir Isaac Newton invented?

  • Reflecting telescope
  • Chronometer
  • Microscope
  • Spectacles
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86. Who invented Bicycle?

  • Leo H Baekeland
  • Karl Benz
  • Evangelista Torricelli
  • Kirkpatrick Macmillan
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87. In which decade with the first transatlantic radio broadcast occur?

  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1900s
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88. In the 1700s, who would pay the postage fee for letters before the stamp was invented?

  • The sender
  • There was no fee
  • The receiver of the letter
  • The post office
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89. Who synthesized the first wholly artificial gene?

  • Hargobind Khorana
  • J.J. Thompson
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Meghnad Saha
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90. FROZEN FOOD - Who discovered the first practical method of freezing food?

  • C. Birdseye
  • F. Rozenosh
  • G. Findus
  • R. Scott
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