TRIVIA - INVENTORS

1. This agriculturalist revolutionized the field when he invented the seed drill. Planting was done neatly and farmers no longer had to bungle in the jungle of crops, although there is no evidence he could play the flute.

2. The alternating current electric system was brought to us by this Serb, who once worked for Thomas Edison. Now an American car company is named for him.

3. This man is generally considered the inventor of the steam engine and the concept of horsepower. Cue the light bulb, as a unit of energy measurement is named for him.

4. This man had no patience for baggage, but is considered the inventor of the computer and the calculator. A shopping mall software chain named for him still exists, but most have been supplanted by GameStop.

5. This Franco-Pol coined the term “radioactivity” and is the only person to win Nobel prizes in multiple sciences, yet couldn’t cure the fatal illness believed to be contracted from radiation exposure.

6. This digital innovator was described by his boss at his first job as “difficult but valuable,” pointing out that “he was very often the smartest guy in the room, and he would let people know that.”

7. This German man has been called the inventor of the first petrol-powered automobile, and boy was it luxury on three wheels.

Courtesy of The Democratic Republic of Trivia