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Invention Connection This is a little tricky. Test your knowledge and see if you can match the creators on the right with their innovations on the left?
1800
Electric Battery
Wilhelm Conrad RĂśntgen
1823
Cigarette Lighter
Dr. David Warren
1845
Rubber Band (Vulcanized Rubber)
Dr. John O’Sullivan & Australian CSIRO team
1849
Safety pin
Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner
1853
Passenger Elevator
Stephen Perry
1882
Electric iron
Sir Alec John Jeffreys
1887
Contact Lenses
Dr. Fiona Wood
1895
X-ray Imaging
Dr. Martin Cooper
1906
Stop-motion film
John Shepherd-Barron
1928
Penicillin
James Stuart Blackton
1948
Velcro
Douglas Engelbert
1950
Credit Card
Alessandro Volta
1951
White Correction Fluid
George de Mestral
1958
Black Box Flight Recorder
Frank McNamara
1963
Computer Mouse (Wheel based)
Walter Hunt
1967
Automated Teller Machine
Adolf Fick
1973
Cellular phone
Elisha Graves Otis
1984
DNA profiling
Henry W. Seeley
1992
Spray-on-skin Technology (Burn Victims)
Sir Alexander Fleming
1996
Internet WiFi
Bette Nesmith Graham
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